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Re:The Man Who Wrote Down Every Thought He Had by danielharan on Monday November 01, 2010 @01:02AM (#1855433)
"Lion's system, painstakingly explained in his book (which can be downloaded for free from his website, see Internet links on the right)"

Off-topic, but is anyone else bothered by this? They could simply use "his book" as the anchor text to the link, but that would be too... web-like?

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Re:The Man Who Wrote Down Every Thought He Had by RiderOfGiraffes on Monday November 01, 2010 @04:45AM (#1855791)
It's a combination of things.

Primarily, it's part of the "House Style" or "House Design" to have the off-site links not in the main body, but to list them in a separate box so that people know they are taking you somewhere else, and an appropriate warning given. Without that warning people complain.

Really, they do.

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Re:The Man Who Wrote Down Every Thought He Had by awesome123 on Monday November 01, 2010 @01:05AM (#1855442)
This is from 2004; these web-like things we take for granted now weren't always so used.
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Re:The Man Who Wrote Down Every Thought He Had by ido on Monday November 01, 2010 @09:18AM (#1856291)
Pretty sure "HyperText-style" was already fairly widely used on the web in 2004 ;)
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