26th August 2005, 9:10 AM
Yes it's all a conspiracy. The little plastic things on the ends of shoelaces are called inglets! Their true purpose, is sinister!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)