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08:31 am: The Internet is for meta-analysis
As any fule kno, the internet is for porn. This fact has stood, like some whacking great monument of truth, in the back of the collective consciousness of the world since the webternet began. And then -- alas! -- it was held up the the harsh light of Science and fell over ungracefully into the mud. For a while the webternet was without form and meaning. Then, gradually, it began to pick up a new identity; here and there, now and then I would see people imputing that these days the internet is for cat pictures.

This set me to thinking: surely the webternet is for many things? Should we deny the validity of Harry Potter/Chalet School crossover fanfic merely because it is neither porn nor depicts cats? And, with the aid of Science[1], I have therefore prepared a Venn diagram of the interwebs which should sort the whole problem out.





[1] Science sat on my shoulder and implored me not to do it, but hey.

ETA: version with more readable, less voluptuous font here

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From:[info]ewx
Date:March 5th, 2007 08:52 am (UTC)
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Deserves to become a classic.
From:[info]ewtikins
Date:March 5th, 2007 09:38 am (UTC)
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Are you selling prints?

Srsly.
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From:[info]87wt2gxq7
Date:March 5th, 2007 09:44 am (UTC)
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Osama sez ditto!

kthxbye.
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From:[info]simont
Date:March 5th, 2007 11:03 am (UTC)
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Unfortunately I found the font difficult to read. (Ongoing peeve, actually; I might perfectly well be willing to pay money for a genuinely nice-looking and legible cursive font. There are too few.)

I don't suppose I dare hope that the entire thing might have been constructed by some sort of script into which you could conveniently substitute a different font designation and have it trivially regenerated?

Other than that, it was very funny :-)
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From:[info]lnr
Date:March 5th, 2007 11:09 am (UTC)
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I think just a different "r" would make this one significantly easier to read.
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From:[info]lnr
Date:March 5th, 2007 11:08 am (UTC)
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That's fabulous. I hope you don't mind that I've turned it into my desktop background. Though admittedly I had to rather pastel-ify it to make it usable.
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From:[info]gnimmel
Date:March 5th, 2007 11:07 pm (UTC)
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No, I don't mind at all :)
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From:[info]dennyd
Date:March 5th, 2007 11:10 am (UTC)
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Brilliant.
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From:[info]king_laugh
Date:March 5th, 2007 11:40 am (UTC)
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Too boingsome for words!
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From:[info]tephramancy
Date:March 5th, 2007 11:47 am (UTC)
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That wins. Totally, completely, utterly and unfalteringly, without question, WINS.
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From:[info]feanelwa
Date:March 5th, 2007 11:50 am (UTC)
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*laughs self stupid*
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From:[info]the_elyan
Date:March 5th, 2007 12:03 pm (UTC)
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Evidently whatever the dark stuff you were drinking on Friday left the doors of perception flung not so much wide as positively gaping ;-)

This is quite wonderful...
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From:[info]emperor
Date:March 5th, 2007 12:52 pm (UTC)
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Excellent. Would it be good to ask someone with e.g. a [info]livechiark account to mirror that before it ends up on boingboing/slashdot and all your bandwidth ever goes away? :)
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From:[info]dennyd
Date:March 5th, 2007 01:21 pm (UTC)
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[info]gnimmel: If this becomes an issue, feel free to embed the copy at http://new.metamathics.org/personal/denny/internet_venn.png - that server has 1000GB a month traffic limit and isn't currently doing anything interesting.
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From:[info]deborah_c
Date:March 5th, 2007 01:36 pm (UTC)
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*rolls on floor giggling uncontrollably*
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From:[info]hairyears
Date:March 5th, 2007 01:45 pm (UTC)
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whacking some great monument

If only.

This diagram... It's going to run and run.

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From:[info]sesquipedality
Date:March 5th, 2007 02:04 pm (UTC)
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I *need* a large poster of this.
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From:[info]ceb
Date:March 5th, 2007 07:36 pm (UTC)
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Seconded.
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From:[info]covertmusic
Date:March 5th, 2007 02:47 pm (UTC)
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Genius :) ([info]ewx sent me here...)
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From:[info]libellum
Date:March 5th, 2007 03:22 pm (UTC)
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Genius. Absolute genius. :)
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From:[info]sesquipedality
Date:March 5th, 2007 03:32 pm (UTC)
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Thinking about it, I'm sure there ought to be some overlap between 9/11 conspiracy theories and those involving Diana.

Hell, they're conspiracy theories. There should be some intersection between all of them, I suppose.
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From:[info]ewx
Date:March 5th, 2007 03:53 pm (UTC)

overlap

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Just who do you think was really flying the fourth plane, eh?
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From:[info]perlmonger
Date:March 5th, 2007 04:10 pm (UTC)
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Hah! That's utterly splendid
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From:[info]martling
Date:March 5th, 2007 04:24 pm (UTC)
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Hi, I got here via [info]sbp. This is superb and I would totally buy a poster print.
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From:[info]fluffymormegil
Date:March 5th, 2007 05:47 pm (UTC)
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You win.
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From:[info]smhwpf
Date:March 5th, 2007 06:02 pm (UTC)
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Brava!

YOU WIN TEH INTARWEBS!!11!!OMG!!!911!!!ELEVENTYONE!
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From:[info]triestine
Date:March 5th, 2007 11:59 pm (UTC)
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Good lord! I have not laughed so much in weeks. A+++
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From:[info]pinkdormouse
Date:March 6th, 2007 07:59 am (UTC)
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Oh, that's inspired!
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From:[info]arwen_lune
Date:March 6th, 2007 04:19 pm (UTC)
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...THAT is of sheer brilliance.

Cheers,
Arwen
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From:[info]99catsaway
Date:March 6th, 2007 04:40 pm (UTC)
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Best thing ever. Srsly.
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From:[info]ironed_orchid
Date:March 6th, 2007 04:45 pm (UTC)
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Fantastic.

Here via a series of links.
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From:[info]99catsaway
Date:March 6th, 2007 04:56 pm (UTC)
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HAH, nice icon. :)
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