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British journalist & political columnist John Rentoul is writing a book on this: Questions To Which The Answer Is No.
Since 2009 he has curated examples at http://blogs.independent.co.uk/tag/headline/
> For one dollar a lottery player purchases entertainment and maybe even a bit of optimism for a little bit of time.
And above all there is gambling, the cheapest of all
luxuries. Even people on the verge of starvation can
buy a few days' hope ('Something to live for', as they
call it) by having a penny on a sweepstake.
I have no firsthand experience but 1984.is run a free DNS that I have heard mentioned a few times.
http://1984hosting.com will take you to their English site (although the What is FreeDNS? page is in Icelandic).
Clay Johnson has a book and website, "The Information Diet: a case for conscious consumption", on this topic:
According to the roadmap[1], a proof of concept will be done in Q2, and an alpha and a beta sometime in the second half of the year.
It's more physics than pure maths, but artist & art critic Matthew Collings made a documentary for the BBC called "Beautiful Equations". More info here: