PZ Myers relates an interesting browser game: Go to the address bar, type an "a", see what url comes up, repeat for the rest of the alphabet and see what it says about you. I was initially reluctant to perform the exercise, fearing a preponderence of prompts to sites which were, in the apt euphemism, not safe for work. My fears were, if not completely groundless, then at least overblown:
I don't know what it says about my "true nature", there are plenty of blogs there, but there are a few curious inclusions. L, R and Y are artefacts of the bookmarks "pre-installed" by Apple for Safari and C is some kind of popup spam but I'm afraid that K utterly defies explanation
Hmm, rather a few "NSFW" choices there. Then again, given the subject matter I touch on at times, I'd bet a few people would say I belong in that category as well.
Opening a new browser tab and performing the same exercise, I'm sorry to report that there's absolutely nothing risque on my own list, unless one considers drooling at hardware on Dabs to fall into that category. What that says about myself I'd rather not contemplate too rigorously ...
Posted by: Abiola Lapite | December 22, 2004 at 10:26 PM
Then again, given the subject matter I touch on at times, I'd bet a few people would say I belong in that category as well.
Indeed, quite an in depth discussion of, ahem, zoophilia there recently!
Posted by: Frank McGahon | December 22, 2004 at 10:49 PM
I think the point of this was to enter the letter and then scroll - so you can see all the sites with that beginning. That's what I use instead of a favourite list.
Posted by: Peter Nolan | December 23, 2004 at 12:37 AM