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Friday, May 09, 2008

Click on it --- you know you want to

Is it any surprise that the most popular BBC News story right now is, "Great tits cope well with warming"?

Oh, human beings --- so predictable. If an alien race wanted to come down and trap us all so it could take over the planet, it would just have to label its trap with the words "great tits" and its work would be done.

I clicked on it too. But that was in the email of daily BBC news, which had it listed as the top story under Science/Nature rather than Health, so I figured it was about some odd creature rather than, well, you know.

Labels: Life in the internet age

posted by Tym at 9:35 AM

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At 5/12/2008 1:49 PM Anonymous said...: I'm feeling a little cheated now..:)
At 5/13/2008 12:02 PM Dorothy said...: I CLICKED ON IT TOOOOOOOO! Heh.
At 5/17/2008 6:07 AM Cool Insider said...: Its the power of having a sensationalist headline, one of the oldest trick in the journo's book.

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