- Monday, 30 November 2009
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We're seeing a sort of Wal-Martisation of this world - Pundit on BBC Radio 4
Intel Insiders vote for coolest headline ever
CIRCUIT NEWS, Intel's internal newspaper, conducted a poll on the "coolest" Chipzilla headline.
Unfortunately, we came third - this always seems to happen at Intel events.
1,858 people voted. Here are the runners and riders in this desperation derby.
1. Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX6800: Why simply win when you can dominate - Tech Report. [That's not a headline, it's a novella, Ed.]
2. Size Matters - Time Magazine. [That's not a headline, it hasn't got a verb in it. Ed.]
3. Intel invents beer-proof laptop.
4. Intel Says Chips Will Run Faster, Using Less Power - New York Times [Why are edlines capitalised in the US? Ed.]
5. AMD appears to be on the ropes - Geek.com [Oh come on, Ed.]
6. OLPC and Intel bury the hatchet for the children - Cnet. [Something vaguely creepy about this one, Ed.] µ
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Because they are "headlines", not titles. They are not complete sentences most of the time.
The INQs headline was, far and away, the best. 

I liked Anand's original article on the Conroe launch entitled, "The Empire Strikes Back!" 
"Size Matters - Time Magazine. [That's not a headline, it hasn't got a verb in it. Ed.]"

Er, yes it has, duh.
The beerproof laptop is the only one that's worth writing home about.
Is an edline different from a headline? Perhaps a better question to ask first would be which country's journals piloted the headline concept? I'm thinking it's probably the 'States, which have always tended more toward the flamboyant than our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic. But I could be wrong.

While we're at it, why do skinheads love fags in the UK but hate them in the US?

So many questions; so little life!