Your Letters
16:55 UK time, Friday, 29 May 2009
I see the uneccessary inverted commas are back with 'a vengeance'.
Balding is 'positive' over cancer
'Kidnapped son' found on Facebook
Briton 'killed in balloon crash'
'Glass hold' reveals personality
Seven million 'use illegal files'
- and that's just in the top six most-read stories. I have to ask: 'Why, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ. Why?'
'Sue', 'London', allegedly.
What the Dickens? Why is "The complete digitized works of Charles Dickens" used as an indicator of broadband speeds ? Firstly, he has been dead long enough for his writing to be out of copyright - so including them in a discussion about illegal downloading is disingenuous at best. Secondly, the text of many books can be represented in very much smaller space than one video file - this article suggests that they would take more time to download than the content of three DVDs, which I don't believe for one second.
Andrew, Cambridge, UK
Never mind getting to the Magazine Monitor's Wiki page from a random article (Susan, Thursday's letters). A better challenge would be to start with Kevin Bacon's page and see who can get the shortest link back. I've managed it in six, which just goes to show there really are only six degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and most of the rest of the world.
Tink, Reading
Susan is of course describing a variant of Wikington Crescent, in which one has to get to the Wikipedia article for Mornington Crescent tube station from a random article in as few links as possible. Apparently one can do it from "Matterhorn" in four moves.
Eleanor, Oxford, UK
How about this? I went from 'From Nine to nine' to 'pistol' to 'Commonwealth' to 'the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ' to '³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ' news online' and finally to the magazine monitor. Phew!
Oscar, London
In your article I am surprised that Kelly Clarkson didn't even make the top 10.
Ed, Clacton, UK
With the amount of time people spent sheltering from the Blitz in Tube Stations I find rather unlikely. More so because I remembered the trivia that Jerry Springer was born in a Tube station (Highgate according to Wikipedia)
JM, Southend-on-Sea
I DID IT! 7 OUT OF 7! AT LAST! Okay, the endangered bird answer was a lucky guess, but this takes nothing away from my sense of pride. I've even taken a screen-grab to commemorate this momentous occasion! Would you like to see it?
Tim, Blackheath
Monitor Note: No thanks, Tim, we believe you. Moving on, here's a small selection from the heap of letters received about the MP for Stone
In fact, now I think about it, manages to sum up the whole MP expenses scandal in one nominatively determined tour-de-force.
Dan, Cambridge
Add to the pile you'll be getting about nominative determinism today please!
Rob Moore, Worcester, UK
When flicking between the and , I discovered the hilarious/terrifying fact that there are two pictures availble for MP Bill Cash - and
Try flicking between the two!
Luke, Edinburgh
That's modern sleaze for you: not so much cash-for-questions as questions-for-Cash
Edward Green, London, UK
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