Fun with RSS readers
When you follow a lot of blogs, use of an RSS reader where new posts are routed directly to You, The Reader, is de rigeur. Sometimes a long blog headline is truncated.
Usually, this is pretty annoying, as your (my) lazy ass tries to guess at what the post might mean before wasting three seconds of your life and one or two calories by actually clicking on it. Other times, the truncations are delicious, as this screenshot reveals. Check out that top item.
Hell yes it's marked as read. Hell yes I clicked on that.
And I was disappointed. As you can see from the original item,
this post by Mindy's Andy Birkey, only one tiny word is removed -- but like a barely-there swimsuit, sometimes removing a little bit makes a big difference.
Birkey did just win a Sexie Award, but that's wholly unrelated, however amusing it is in the the context of the original item.
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