Algol

Roger dodger!

I feel like writing about surprising and humorous things can be a specific kind of bias, but at least an entertaining bias.

I don't see a mention of quantum computers in the article. I think LHCb detected the particle.

*palladium

Though I guess that is also a precious metal.

The comment is in reference to the bar graph at the end of the article.

That was a lot of fun. It can help solving this puzzle if you are familiar with techniques for solving picross (AKA nonogram) puzzles.

I think they retired the fail whale some time ago.

I looked it up: in 2013, because they didn't want to be associated w/ outages.