It certainly is - but with a much narrower intended scope of use. It's really not intended as a data transport mechanism for example. It's also homologous with JSON, XML is more flexible in its data representation. And finally, it makes use of HTML5 conventions, such as prefixing custom tags with a hyphen delimited string, data-* attributes etc.

I've been awkwardly saying "Aitch Five Oh En" in my head, but my work colleague says "Aitch Son", which even though it's a 5 and not an S sort of makes sense given the relationship to JSON :)

You know what, could be "Aitch Fon" as well (the 5 starts with F, right?)

But didn't most writing systems evolve from accounting systems?

Chinese writing is pretty likely to have come from deviation (dropping turtle shells into fires and interpreting the cracks).

Not sure of the origin of mesoamerican writing.

Middle eastern writing's origin (motivation) is also unclear.

The majority of people have a basic need to work in some form or another, regardless of compensation.

72k posts could be just a handful of active accounts. My own has 15k or so posts and I often don't touch it for weeks at a time.

You're wrong. A lambda can have a body. Compiles and executes:

  new Func<string>(() => {
    var foo = "bar";
    return foo;
  })();

    new Func<string>(()=>"foo")();

    (function(){return "foo";})();

Oh look - exactly the same number of characters. How awful.

It's obnoxious - and so is your manner of speaking to people.

Suspect it's http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results

edit: or the same source as huffpost at least

A map: http://imgur.com/GDJPL

the white square at 11n11e is not at the good position on this map.

I wonder why 11n11e and 11s11e are empty.

All of the 11x11y squares are empty, the south ones are just black instead of white. I've not worked out why yet.

Somebody in another forum pointed out that 1111 is the next comic.