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Wired Sciencereported yesterday that, starting this fall, Wikipediawill be adding an optional feature called " WikiTrust" that will "color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page."  Wikipedia hopes this system will help clear up ambiguities in the reliability of their articles.

This idea is genius!  In fact, it immediately inspired me to suggest a similar system to the Tosh.0 blogging team:

• GREEN - You have to be reallyhigh to get this joke.  Like ridiculously high.  But trust us, if you take the time to handle your business and can still figure out how to log onto your computer, you'll be laughing until tears stream down your cheeks.
• MALTY - We were hammered when we wrote this joke.  As professional comedy writers, we spend most nights drowning our sorrows in a mix of whiskey and TiVoed daytime television (the shows we used to watch during the previous 18 months that we were unemployed).  Putting back a fifth of Jack every evening means you usually wake up about as drunk as you went to sleep.  Typically anything posted before noon can be considered to have been written under the influence of alcohol, but with the new color-coding system, you'll know for sure.

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Yesterday guardian.co.uk ran an article about the Twitter Comedy Club (@tweetcomedyclub) — a group who claims to have staged "the first standup gig to be done purely through the medium of Twitter."

Acts had 10 minutes to tweet in as many 140 character jokes as possible.  The audience followed along by searching #tcgig.  And though some of the schematics were obviously a bit on the clumsy side, the show happened… which is half the battle for any comedy show.

Unfortunately, being that it was British-based, some of the jokes didn't totally translate on this side of the pond.  "My dad used to say, 'Money: you can't take it with you.' Which led to some pretty boring holidays" is far funnier if you are from, say, Sheffield (and used to the British meaning of the word "holiday.")

But the idea of telling jokes within the restriction of a Twitter post is an interesting concept.

Let's see what you got!  Give us your best 140 character joke in the comments.

No cheating.  I'll be counting every letter… and space… and hashmark.  But seriously, if you can make us laugh with a pound sign, I'll give you huge props.

Internet, we need to talk. We laughed at the grape stomping lady, that fat guy, and when you rick rolled us that one time, but sometimes you go too far.

You need to stop picking on Helen Keller. She?s just a dead American author and activist who was both deaf and blind. She?s not bothering you. So stop being so mean, seriously.

After the jump, we list of the 10 most inappropriate items pertaining to Helen Keller that we?ve found on the world wide Internet. JUMP!

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