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Original source: http://www.tomscott.com/mob/. From the guidelines: "Please submit the original source". That's not quite the same as embedding something in your own blog and then submitting your own blog.

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Actually, even that's not the original source! Among other things, I'm one of the co-organisers of Ignite London, which Tom Scott made this (very, very cool) video/presentation for. The video was filmed by another organiser (Richard) for Ignite London, so this is really the REAL original source (just to be pedantic) -

http://vimeo.com/channels/ignitelondon2#10060159

or

http://ignitelondon.net/videos

Another amazing presentation from that night (there were plenty) was the one about the price of chocolate bars, showing the use and abuse of statistics:

http://vimeo.com/channels/ignitelondon2#10052795

Thanks!

It's a story that requires a perfect storm of events with a large dose of human idiocy, it's not very plausible outside of Hollywood.

Ah, but there's a very large pool of humanity to draw idiocy from. Something that I'm sure has driven many an engineer (and politician) insane.

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