Bernard Cleyet (2011a) in his Phys-L/PhysLrnR/Physhare post "Re:
[Phys-l] Mme. Curie, mentor" wrote (in its cryptic entirety ):
"xkcd: Marie Curie
bc thanks Dean Baird"
Then about 11 hours latter Cleyet (2011b) wrote:
"Thanks to all who replied with the complete 'working' URL:
<http://xkcd.com/896/>
bc must send to himself to verify the correct 'working' link."
Better than "sending to himself" why not follow suggestion #9 of
"Fourteen Posting Suggestions" [Hake (2005)]:
"9. Give URL's as <http://. . . . .>. . . . . . . CLICK ON ALL URL'S
IN YOUR MESSAGE TO BE SURE THEY WORK."
As a scan of Phys-l/PhysLrnR/Physhare archives will attest, "Fourteen
Posting Suggestions" has been almost completely ignored by posters on
those lists. Evidently most subscribers, although physicists, are
free spirited types who would probably agree with William Hazlitt's
(1821-22) opinion:
"We hear it maintained by people of more gravity than understanding,
that genius and taste are strictly reducible to rules, and that there
is a rule for everything. . . . . In art, in taste, in life, in
speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. . . . ."
REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on
16 May 2011.]
Cleyet, B. 2011a. "[Phys-l] Mme. Curie, mentor," online on the OPEN!
Phys-L archives at <http://bit.ly/jyJWbM>. Post of 15 May 2011
21:48:58-0700 to Phys-L, PhysLrnR, and Physhare.
Cleyet, B. 2011b. "Re: [Phys-l] Mme. Curie, mentor" online on the
OPEN! Phys-L archives at <http://bit.ly/jZ4Y1e>. Post of 16 May 2011
09:10:40-0700 to Phys-L, PhysLrnR, and Physhare.
Hake, R.R. 2005. "Fourteen Posting Suggestions (was Extraneous,
arrogant, stupid, grossly-misinformed computer OS comments...)"
online on the OPEN! Phys-L archives at <http://bit.ly/bEKBeL>. Post
of 25 Jul 2005 16:25:2-0700 to AP-Physics, Phys-L, PhysLrnR,
Physhare, and Physoc.
Hazlitt, W. 1821-22. "Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners," online
thanks to Project Gutenberg at <http://bit.ly/lJYMUB>, scroll to
volume I, Essay IV, "On Genius And Common Sense at
<http://bit.ly/mpJdaS>. A Wikipedia entry on Hazlitt, "now considered
one of the great critics and essayists of the English language" is at
<http://bit.ly/j2Smuz>.