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At the far right bottom of the post, next to the flag and bookmark is a piece of chain, or a link if you prefer.
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Oh, right. The old 'a symbol is better than a phrase' idea. Hmm. Lets go back to hieroglyphs eh? 
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It's for the non English readers.
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And work in IT? Are there any?
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We obviously need a sarcasm icon.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: It's for the non English readers.
... but limited to those cultures / languages that use any sort of "chain-like" idiom to represent a reference to a document.
In Norwegian, you never use "kjetting", chain, as a link idiom. We use "link", in the sense of a radio link, through open air with no physical connection - a term never used for anything physical. Frequently when we encounter icons of English-language origin, we have to go through the different English words that can describe the icon, hoping that one of them matches some relvant concept - such as a chain, a link, ... aha! "Link" is a known English term in the web domain! Then that must be it! (In this example, we happen to use the same term ("link") in English and Norwegian. Often, you end up at a completely different Norwegian word.)
Icons easily end up as just a graphical pattern that carries no inherent meaning. Like this parent who were bemoaning that kids of today know nothing about computing history - they see this floppy-disk icon, but have never seen a real-world floppy. So this mother pointing to the floppy icon to her teenage son: "I bet you have no idea what that is", and the boy protests: "Of course I do! That's a save button!"
Icons are sensitive to cultural variations, and to ages.
"Word icons" are similar: Lots of Europeans wouldn't know that GUI "radio buttons" have anything to do with a radio. Even though European radios might have physical preset buttons, we are not accustomed to mechanics where the active button changes its face color. I have been with kids seeing that "American style" radio buttons for the first time, exclaiming: "Gee! That is just like on the PC! Great!"
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Interesting, what do you call a link in a chain then?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: 
How dare you, you hypocrite!!
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So, yeah. How did that whole "Jesus is my vaccine" thing work out back in 1918? Oh yeah, 50 to 100 million dead. Seems like it didn't work back then.
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Because they didn't understand God correctly back then! That was pre-Vatican II!
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well there's all sorts out there...
even "qualified" programmers that still insist array index zero doesn't exist.
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More of a guideline really...
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First thing that didn't blow up (so far). Celebrate the accomplishment 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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That simultaneous booster landing was AWESOME!
Hoping to hear the core landed successfully too.
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They should have cut to a panel of judges holding up signs with 10s on them!
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It is a fine piece of engineering is it not!
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And the most important picture of all:
Honk[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Looks like the start of "Heavy Metal".
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It's been a while since I saw that, but you are right.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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