"Hyperlink Crescent"

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• Rosie: (Phil) Verses from the Koran would be better. It's their target clientele.
• Blob: I'd've thought the most appropriate selection for a spotter scope would be GEN1:3 - however interestingly there is a hyperlink on that page within GEN1:3 directly to 2COR4:6 which is one of the quotations cited in the article.
• Phil: How about Genesis 37:18
• Rosie: (Phil) Deliver Genesis 1:3 in the grave dramatic style of an old-time Welsh preacher and then add, in a strong S. Walian accent; .
• Moomintroll: [Rosie] rofl!
• Dunx: Economicx schoolin', yo.
• Dunx: I was going to apologise for the typo, but it looks suitably street so I shall let it stand.
• Kinrah: Useful for the Dan Brown game: DanBrowned. See also the Dan Brown page of DanBrowned.
• Uncle Korky: [Phil] Spot on!
• Simons Mith: The lady who did the cyberpunk doll ('Clockwork Couture, linked some pages back) has now done A fetching pirate lass as well.
• Raak: How to write badly well. Reminds me of some games in the Morniverse.
• Phil: [Raak] Very good. I wonder if there is a "very bad journalism" site, as I just read "More rain is expected through Friday, though less than what's already drenched the region." on the CNN website. It made me flinch as I read it.
• Rosie: (Phil) Even as a fully-paid-up weather nut and pedant I can't see much wrong with that. It says "More rain, though not as heavy as just recently." You should listen to some of them on Radio 4 of all places. Have smelling salts ready. Loosen all clothing. If in doubt consult a Phil-ologist.
• Raak: At last, a reason to get an iPhone!
• Phil: [Rosie] My view was that someone who is trained and paid to write should have come up with a better phrase than "less than what's already..."
• Blob: [Dan] Do you relaise you have the 14,790,401st most visited site on Earth ! Congratulations, but I'm afraid Dunx is Twice as popular at 7,223,760th !
• Simons Mith: Suspicious. Even simon-smith.org scores under 11,000,000, and there's not much of interest on my site.
• Dunx: [Blob] But this fine site has 37 links to it whereas OMC only has 31!
• Phil: another 10 seconds of fame as a vox pop in East Midlands Today (click on the "Watch latest edition in full"). It's the 3rd item in (football pitch development). I think the link should be valid until 5pm Monday at least.
• Simons Mith: Hey, we're slipping. It's been days now, and not a peep about Apple's great new iPad? Well, here's the lowdown.

February 2010

• flerdle: Incendiary blog post
• flerdle: (the comments are fun too)
• Simons Mith: This comment no verb.
• Phil: Hmmm, my first thought was "what a load of twattish shit". I continued to read, and haven't changed my opinion. I suspect I've missed the point, or that I've gone beyond it and have lost the moment.
• Rosie: What a clever little boy. God help us when he discovers sex.
• Newkid: I'm with Phil on that one. I couldn't be bothered to finish reading that self-satisfied load of balls.
• flerdle: [P,R,N] Isn't that the point?
• Phil: [flerdle] Ummm, I wasn't sure. Having read a bit more of it, I think I don't read enough blogs/comments/stuff to appreciate the joke immediately. At least now I think I know what it's meant to be saying...I think.
• Kim: This comment uses the expression "in my humble opinion" to mean exactly the opposite.
• Dunx: This comment uses an emoticon in the mistaken belief that casting an offensive remark as a joke will not make it offensive.
• Simons Mith: You can't deny though, it's an excellent template for what an inflammatory blog post should contain. I can't think of anything that's been missed.
• Dunx: [S Mith] Oh, I agree completely! Should I ever wish to actually write such a blog post this will be my first port of call.
• JLE: This comment is an obligatory joke about the Original Poster's mother and her sexual preferences.
• Raak: Optimal Waist-to-Hip Ratios in Women Activate Neural Reward Centers in Men! Who would have guessed it?
• Newkid: blimey, next there'll be research on whether blokes like looking at pictures of naked women.
• Raak: [Newkid] Ahem...

  14 men (M_age = 25.21, S.D. = 6.30) were scanned using fMRI while making attractiveness ratings to randomly and individually presented pictures (one from the rear and one from an oblique rear position for each woman) of seven naked female bodies prior to and after recovery from an elective cosmetic surgical procedure to reconfigure and optimize WHR [waist-to-hip ratio].

• Raak: And here's part of their conclusion:

  Lastly, this finding may extend our understanding of some men’s proclivity to develop a preoccupation with stimuli depicting optimally designed women

  I think they should be nominated for an Ig Nobel.
• Dunx: People of Wal Mart. WARNING - eye-scrubbing may be required afterward.
• Phil: [Dunx] I feel personally, and intimately, violated. OMFG!
• Rosie: (Raak) What do they mean by "optimal?" Surely the whole thing is a circular argument. Ig Nobel is too good for them.

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