Two Gedankenexperiments, out of my thinking about origins and controversy

Off and on over the last few years I've thought about a, for lack of a better term, gedankenexperiment related to the strong feelings and reactions people get when dealing with issues of origins. Over lunch I came up with another.

I'll have to admit that I created these, they reflect my worldview (or perhaps I should say universview), so I am probably guilty of loading the dice a bit. But I'll have a go anyway. ( Experiment 1 )

( Experiment 2 )

( A couple comments about my experiments )

Another Meem

After seeing this meem from jrittenhouse, I had to try This test.

This tested my dialect and decided that I'm "44% (Yankee). Barely in the Yankee category." ( Discussion )

Is it just me

...or do other users find it really confusing that the cut tag is <lj-cut> and the link to another user tag is <lj user>?

...or do other people have a real tendency make typos when dealing with characters created using the &*; construct?