Anatomy

Weekly Tech Links provides a list of seven links, a rating, and a brief description each week, updated on Sundays. All the links in a post are referred to as a “dump”, or a collection.

The order of the links in the collection are organized, in a bulleted list, by type:

  • Link 1 — Blogosphere: Blog posts come and go. But some of them stay.
  • Link 2 — Community: Every forum you pass into thinks it’s in its own world.
  • Link 3 — Freeware: Because shareware is just never worth the $24.99. Ever.
  • Link 4 — Games: Think you’ve been addicted to every game out there? Not yet.
  • Link 5 — Random: Why can’t these links behave and categorize themselves?
  • Link 6 — Wiki: Where there’s a will, there’s a wiki. Every… single… time.
  • Link 7 — YouTube: If you haven’t seen this video, you aren’t complete.

Each link is rated with one to three emoticons, each having a separate meaning:

Rating :smile: Rating
Angering :mad: :lol: Hilarious
Awesome :cool: :mrgreen: Incredibly fun
Brand new :arrow: :razz: Ironic or silly
Brilliant :idea: :?: Questionable
Confusing :? :neutral: So-so
Depressing :sad: :roll: Stupid
Discretion :!: :eek: Surprising
Embarrassing :oops: :cry: Very depressing
Evil :evil: :twisted: Very evil
Friendly :wink: :grin: Very fun
Fun :smile: :shock: Very surprising

So, for example, if a link had the rating :arrow: :!: :lol: , that would mean that the site or content has been recently created, personal discretion is advised (may be unacceptable for children), and is quite funny.

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