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Something for the weekend:

This must have taken a long, long time to create. But contrarian that I am, I did find a single character in that post that he missed. Can you find it? Shhh! Don’t tell him! If he’s going to torture us with that post, then the least we can do is the same to him.

P.S. He links to this blog in that entry, which is how I found out about it.

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November 17th, 2006 3:30 PM by Phil Plait in About this blog, Humor, Time Sink | 14 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

14 Responses to “Linked in”

  1. 1.   James Pyrich Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 4:16 pm

    Not too difficult to find, if you have the right kinds of tools… ;)

  2. 2.   James Pyrich Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 4:16 pm

    Not too difficult to find, if you have the right kinds of tools… :)

  3. 3.   John B. Sandlin Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 5:12 pm

    I’m not going to reveal the location. I’m using that character in this post ;)

    I’m curious, James, which tool you used to located the character. As a hint, I’m using an application that allows me to adjust the formatting for various styles of text – including hyper-links. There’s an easy way to make characters not using that format to pop out.

    Oh, and we should probably point out that the space character between words isn’t the one we found.

    jbs

  4. 4.   Ed Minchau Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 8:51 pm

    The tool is simply IE6, which shows hyperlinks in a different color than regular text.

  5. 5.   Thomas Siefert Says:
    November 17th, 2006 at 8:54 pm

    BA, are you really really bored? Then check this out. ;-)

  6. 6.   Rumour Mongerer Says:
    November 18th, 2006 at 2:51 am

    Ah, yes, found it. Some might say it’s rather ironical where it occurs. :)

  7. 7.   BB Says:
    November 18th, 2006 at 7:41 am

    What an astropophical – errr, I mean astronomical mistake. Yes, astronomical.

  8. 8.   Rob Knop Says:
    November 18th, 2006 at 8:46 am

    Wow.

    I mean, frequently I’ll show friends something that I found amusing on the net. (E.g. “Eric Conveys an Emotion.”) The response is often, “somebody has too much time on their hands.” I always bristle a little at this… after all, if each of us sat down and looked at what we did all day, I’m sure all of us have things that we do, and even things that we put energy in, that many other people would find a waste of time. Eric, for example, was presumably aumsing himself in his Convey an Emotion website; who are we to judge and say that it’s all waste time? Just because you see no value in it doesn’t mean that somebody else didn’t. Heck, a lot of nerds on the Internet seem to think that watching a football game is a collosal waste of time; would you find agreement on that among those who think that (say) going to a science fiction con is a collosal waste of time? Foo.

    But making a gigantic post that is all links? The only response I can come up with is that…. somebody has too much time on his hands.

    -Rob the Newly Converted Hypocrite

  9. 9.   Cindy Says:
    November 18th, 2006 at 6:07 pm

    I looked last night and didn’t see it, but looked tonight and found it. It’s easy to spot without software as the character is in a different color than the rest (at least to my default setups using Mozilla).

    Yeah, somebody needs to get a life.

  10. 10.   John B. Sandlin Says:
    November 18th, 2006 at 9:49 pm

    Maybe it’s my monitor, but I had trouble finding it with out enhancing the difference. Knowing where it’s at, I can see the color difference now. I’ll note here that the character is again making an appearance in my reply and in every sentence, so far.

    I’ll also echo the comment: “too much time on his hands!”

    jbs

  11. 11.   icemith Says:
    November 19th, 2006 at 7:59 am

    ‘A’ man strikes again.

    Ivan.

  12. 12.   icemith Says:
    November 19th, 2006 at 8:15 am

    And it’s noticeable in Safari, especially if the text is enlarged a lot, it shows up without color – think about that. No, I’m not kidding.

    But why wasn’t another example OK? Just a stupid mistake, perhaps?

    Ivan.

  13. 13.   Crux Australis Says:
    November 19th, 2006 at 10:47 am

    I found it just by looking at the colors (sorry, ‘colours’) on my Firefox screen. The links show up a different color.

  14. 14.   Astrogirl Says:
    November 20th, 2006 at 2:43 am

    I though the post would be about http://www.LinkedIn.com . It’s a cool concept. Can I be in you network?

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