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A challenge

By tfk on January 8, 2007.

The Washington Monthly asks:

Nobody seems to mind when, say, soldiers or longshoremen cuss. It's usually described as "salty" or "colorful." So why can't bloggers be described as salty and colorful too?

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Which reminds me of the sorely missed Suck.com, and its occasional series of filler graphs like this:

And so I issue a challenge to people with copious spare time and graphical skillz. Produce a chart of (science)bloggers on axes of salty versus colorful.

One presumes that Wonkette, for instance, would max out on salty and colorful. Pharyngula is salty, but not as colorful. Deep Sea News is very salty, not very colorful.

I suspect that TfK is colorful, but only moderately salty. I will, of course, defer to others' judgment.

Alas, I'm not convinced that the Washington Monthly would be either salty or colorful, though.

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Man, I miss suck.com a lot. I is one of my all time favorite web sites, and it was a sad day when it stopped.