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FYA*: Little bloopers of content, metadata and evolution

Headline in the Brookline Tab:

Vatican Denies Church’s Appeal

No, the Pope has not stated that Catholicism is unappealing. Rather, a local church’s appeal not to be closed was denied.


While I like being told metadata such as what’s the maximum number of stars used in a rating system, I found this from the Boston Globe’s Calendar section to be odd:

Restaurants reviewed by the Globe’s regular critic, Alison Arnett, are rated on a scale of zero to four stars, four being the highest. [Emphasis added.]

Is there a single instance of a rating system using stars to indicate negatives? Just wondering…


And there’s this, which was sent to my sister without attribution:

quarterhorse
Quarterhorse

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