[QUOTE=science_man_88;288570]any logical person would hover over a link in my browser the most ( if not all) of the full end of the URL ( most if not all yahoo articles have the title in the end URL) shows.[/QUOTE]I hovered over each of the three bare URLs you posted Feb. 4-7. Result: three only-slightly-less-abbreviated URLs, which still didn't tell me anything useful. [sarc] Thanks a lot. [/sarc]

Come on! You need to learn to communicate in text, so start here by writing a summary in your own words for each URL post!

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BTW, I apologize for committing the same bare-URL-post sin earlier in this thread. (You're a bad influence, sm88!) Thanks to Ernst's reminder, I hope to remember not to repeat that.

[QUOTE=cheesehead;288586]I hovered over each of the three bare URLs you posted Feb. 4-7. Result: three only-slightly-less-abbreviated URLs, which still didn't tell me anything useful. [sarc] Thanks a lot. [/sarc]

Come on! You need to learn to communicate in text, so start here by writing a summary in your own words for each URL post!

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BTW, I apologize for committing the same bare-URL-post sin earlier in this thread. (You're a bad influence, sm88!) Thanks to Ernst's reminder, I hope to remember not to repeat that.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://news.yahoo.com/namibia-sponge-fossils-worlds-first-animals-study-203340973.html[/url]

people dug up fossils and based on the rocks they found them in assume they are the oldest known animals.

[url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/magnitude-6-8-earthquake-shakes-central-philippines-no-043115109.html[/url]

a 6.9 earthquake struck off a Philippine island killing at least 13, the quake caused landslides and they are digging people out.

[url]http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/good-news/heartless-man-surviving-without-heart-pulse-194723191.html[/url]

a video recounting a medical experiment on someone who was going to die according to the timeline they had for the persons heart , they had the experiment animal tested , the replacement heart is composed of 2 turbines that create continuous flow, without a heartbeat the person was medically dead however the turbines managed to keep them alive for a month after the operation before he was overcome by amyloidosis.

[url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/screenshot441.png[/url]

That's what I see from your links.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;288599][url]http://filesmelt.com/dl/screenshot441.png[/url]

That's what I see from your links.[/QUOTE]

I can read the articles he links to fine, so your problem may be Dubslow-specific :( . What browser are you using, have you tried with/sans javascript enabled, etc. (If you have > 1 browser installed on your PC, try your non-default one and see if that renders the articles.)

SM88, your latest version is an improvement, but my point in pasting the url-tag template was that most of the time, the articles provide all the informational text you need - just copy the headline into the space between the ...url] and [/ur..., and the subhead or the first few paragraphs into the quote box. The whole idea of this kind of "quick hits" communication is to convey the most information about the linked article in the fewest user-visible characters. Since the informational content - as cheesehead notes - of the raw url is very low, it's better to embed it under some informational text. This sort of embedding is hugely important in all kinds of web-enabled documents (e.g. webpages, résumés in PDF or HTML form, school papers posted online, etc) that it's really important to get comfortable with.

We appreciate your interest in science, we are simply trying to improve the quality of the "conversation".

[QUOTE=ewmayer;288603]I can read the articles he links to fine, so your problem may be Dubslow-specific :( . What browser are you using, have you tried with/sans javascript enabled, etc. (If you have > 1 browser installed on your PC, try your non-default one and see if that renders the articles.)

SM88, your latest version is an improvement, but my point in pasting the url-tag template was that most of the time, the articles provide all the informational text you need - just copy the headline into the space between the ...url] and [/ur..., and the subhead or the first few paragraphs into the quote box. The whole idea of this kind of "quick hits" communication is to convey the most information about the linked article in the fewest user-visible characters. Since the informational content - as cheesehead notes - of the raw url is very low, it's better to embed it under some informational text. This sort of embedding is hugely important in all kinds of web-enabled documents (e.g. webpages, résumés in PDF or HTML form, school papers posted online, etc) that it's really important to get comfortable with.

We appreciate your interest in science, we are simply trying to improve the quality of the "conversation".[/QUOTE]

I got a few things wacky for me as well a few not found errors and one that had a link to one thing posted but linked to something else entirely.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;288603]I can read the articles he links to fine, so your problem may be Dubslow-specific :( . What browser are you using, have you tried with/sans javascript enabled, etc. (If you have > 1 browser installed on your PC, try your non-default one and see if that renders the articles.)
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Actually, I just looked again, I saw an m.yahoo.com . I think that it thinks Linux is a phone. That's really quite dumb of it.

[QUOTE=Dubslow;288609]I think that it thinks Linux is a phone. That's really quite dumb of it.[/QUOTE]Perhaps they understand that Linux is a toy OS and decided to deliver you the toy device content. :truck:

[QUOTE=retina;288613]Perhaps they understand that Linux is a toy OS and decided to deliver you the toy device content. :truck:[/QUOTE]That's right. Real Computers™ use BSD.

Hehe, I just tried the links again on my phone, and lo and behold, it worked! It directed me to the mobile version of the story which of course displayed just fine, and without th .m. domain. I know it was the mobile site because at the bottom it had a link to the desktop version if the site. I have no idea what the .m. thingy is that I get from my desktop browser.

a flash animation, the scale from universe to 'string' tehory
[URL]http://images.4channel.org/f/src/589217_scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf[/URL]

A friend forwards the following interesting 'nugget' out of the UK:

[quote]On Feb 13, 2012, at 1:58 PM, JDM wrote:

British science solves another riddle that gave us sleepless nights pondering ...

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17012795]Science behind ponytail revealed[/url][/quote]

A bunch of science nerds spending too much time around horses' nethers reminds me of my Dad's favourite joke about horses, to wit:

Q: What is the definition of a horse show?

A: A horse show = A bunch of horses showing their arses to a bunch of horses' arses showing their horses.

Chalk one up for the 'neighsayers', straight from the horse's mouth, etc. :)