On 10-9-2010 3:36, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>    Check out the logos of Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera,
>> Safari, Konqueror and Netscape. They have one thing in common: They are
>> all round.
>>
>>    This got me thinking, why are they all round?
>>
>>    My theory: Web browser logos are usually based on the "planet" motif
>> (depicting world-wideness). The Firefox logo has a literal planet in it,
>> but are all the other ones also round for the same reason?
>
> I found this question quite interesting, and reposted it elsewhere. One of
> the replies I got was: "many other icons are round, too ... this smells like
> a case of '99% of all criminals wear underwear while comitting their crimes,
> obviously underwear makes people criminal'" :)

Reminds me of a comic we have hanging somewhere in the lab. The text on 
it is something like:
17% of all accidents occur when the driver is drunk. That is disturbing, 
that means that in 83% of cases...

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