Popular Elsewhere
15:49 UK time, Thursday, 3 November 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
A popular Guardian article says . It links fans, known as the Juggalos, to a shooting and an assault on a homeless man. But it could be that readers are clicking on the story less out of outrage for the "demonisation" of music fans and more because they have never heard of Insane Clown Posse. The Guardian seeks to educate. It explains Insane Clown Posse are the pioneers of the "horrorcore" music genre with an evil clown image and fans averaging out at 14-years-old. It doesn't get to the bottom of why they like to spray fizzy drinks over their fans.
according to the New York Times' most popular story. And this isn't meant as a euphemism. We've literally forgotten how to run properly, it says. The article claims cushioned soles are behind this evolutionary re-wind and subsequent increase in runners' injuries. The piece then becomes a cautionary tale about the perils of advertising in publishing. That's because it claims this hasn't come out before because running magazines were dependant on advertising from shoe makers.
China's leading e-commerce site isn't eBay, it Taobao. A popular Time article . The magazine notes that in the days before Taobao's dominance in China was certain, its owner Jack Ma came out with some great fighting talk against eBay:
"Ebay may be a shark in the ocean, but I am a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose -but if we fight in the river, we win."
Brian Palmer pleads in a popular Slate article for readers to . Besides the argument that countless blind experiments have shown so-called wine experts haven't been able to tell the difference between expensive and cheap wines there is another rather compelling point of view: that if you don't like the wine, you haven't spent very much.
