[url]http://news.yahoo.com/farm-theme-boosts-enrollment-rural-kansas-school-194623036.html[/url]

I found out about this a few days ago and it hits my funnybone somehow.
Take a look at this caricature.
[URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Legendre.jpg"]Legendre.jpg[/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrien-Marie_Legendre#Portrait_debacle"]Portrait debacle[/URL][QUOTE]For two centuries, until the recent discovery of the error in 2005, books, paintings and articles have incorrectly shown a side-view portrait of the obscure French politician Louis Legendre (1752–1797) as that of the mathematician Legendre. The error arose from the fact that the sketch was labelled simply "Legendre". The only known portrait of Legendre, recently unearthed, is found in the 1820 book Album de 73 portraits-charge aquarellés des membres de I’Institut, a book of caricatures of seventy-three famous mathematicians by the French artist Julien-Leopold Boilly as shown below:[3][/QUOTE]
This Wikipedia entry is in error in the last sentence. The reference that Wikipedia uses notes that (in addition to Legendre & Fourier), "The collection [1] also contains a caricature of Laplace, but no other mathematicians are represented." It's been a long time since I've edited Wikipedia...

Duren, Peter (December 2009). [URL="http://www.ams.org/notices/200911/rtx091101440p.pdf"]"Changing Faces: The Mistaken Portrait of Legendre"[/URL]. Notices of the AMS 56 (11): 1440–1443, 1455.
[QUOTE]Once the traditional portrait was known to be false, a feverish search began for a true portrait of Adrien-Marie Legendre.Miraculously, an authentic portrait was discovered during the year 2008 in the library of the Institut de France in Paris, among a rare collection [1] of seventy-three caricatures of members of the Institute. One of the watercolor sketches (depicted on the cover of this issue of the Notices) shows the heads of Legendre and Fourier, with bodies lightly sketched in pencil. Their names “Legendre” and “Fourier” are written below the sketch. Fourier is easily recognized from existing portraits, but Legendre takes on a totally new appearance. This is the only image of Adrien-Marie Legendre known to exist.[/QUOTE]

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[url]http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/oreo-separator-video-192305524.html[/url]

"we are sorry, this video is not available at your location", that is why I don't use yahoo anymore since about an year, moved my mail accounts too (those used for diferent purposes except job and serious things, to which I have serous mail account), from @yahoo to @gmail.

[QUOTE=LaurV;331340]"we are sorry, this video is not available at your location", [B]that is why I don't use yahoo anymore[/B] since about an year, moved my mail accounts too (those used for diferent purposes except job and serious things, to which I have serous mail account), from @yahoo to @gmail.[/QUOTE]
Nonsequitur much?
The video is ...on youtube! How can yahoo possibly help your grudge?
Now that you moved to gmail - you obviously can see the video?!
[YOUTUBE]pii4G8FkCA4[/YOUTUBE]
You do know that youtube is owned by google? If against anyone, you grudge should be directed at your new landlord - google.

When I click on the posted link, the article AND the video ARE ON YAHOO. And there is no reference to youtube and no link to it. THIS (below) is what I see, before and after clicking the play button, and I had no time to search for the guy. This only happens to things linked through yahoo, since about one year ago. I can see the video linked by you (on youtube) perfectly. You may want to reconsider your ranting... :razz:


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[QUOTE=LaurV;331347]When I click on the posted link, the article AND the video ARE ON YAHOO. And there is no reference to youtube and no link to it. THIS (below) is what I see, before and after clicking the play button, and I had no time to search for the guy.[/QUOTE]
Huh? Search?
There is no reference to youtube? There is no link? Amazing!

Man, I have no reason to lie to you. Outside of US, yahoo news sucks. I was big fan yahoo once, long ago. I DON'T see a link in the text. I however can read the caption under the photo, but somehow did not see it first time :blush:

And here is a proof that I [U]can[/U] see the youtube video, so, again, your uppercuts related to google or whatever, were uncalled for (no matter if I know or not who is owning what).

Not to say outside of US, but at least here locally, yahoo sucks, and it is not from my provider (different at home and job). You can call me whatever, you may even be right in calling me that, but you will not succeed in changing my opinion. I don't have many ideas, but those I have are well fixed... :razz:

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I have no feeling towards any of them! They are tools! I am using none of them or any of them that happen to provide me with the link to the real source material. If I hear about a blurb about ENCODE project, I will only read until the link to the Science or Nature or PNAS source and I will take it from there.*

I have no desire to change your opinion on providers of news or mail.

I am just asking for polite discourse and a bit of logic. So, you canceled your [I]email [/I]provider because their [I]news [/I]service sucked? And today you simply (publicly and w/o an apparent reason) lashed out at them because you did not read the news but jumped to vitriol as soon as you saw the bottom window? You know what is there? There's an invariable blond who would poorly read the webpage copntent for you - [B]that's all[/B]. (of all content providers I only watch those videos at [URL="http://www.theonion.com/video/new-miss-america-in-danger-of-losing-crown-after-o,31072/"]oniontv[/URL] - for obvious reasons, i.e. lols; for everything else, if/when I will go blind, there's Microsoft Sam voice-over.) The video in question (I would imagine) they won't even be able to embed - they are competitors in business and they will only lie in bed occasionally and with mutual disgust. ;-) Only if there was money to be made for both of them. So you parse the news until the first blue link and you are done! (Beware: of course, there exist fake links. But Chuck Norris never visits such fake news pages. Neither do I.)

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*and here is how I "read" the weather. You think I watch TV "on the 8s"? read the write-ups? Or listen to the blond who will be talking about every neighborhood in San Diego and mangle numbers along the way? No. I simply click a single bookmarked link that will give me the radar, [URL="http://radar.wunderground.com/data/nids/NKX19_anim.gif"]local[/URL] and [URL="http://radar.wunderground.com/data/640x480/2xradard1_anim.gif"]regional[/URL]. I can tell you from these - when the rain is (if ever) going to hit, accurate to a few minutes.

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