Thursday, August 9, 2007

Why Didn't We Make International News?

This was my sister's question when she forwarded this article from MSNBC yesterday. My mom also saw it as a crawler on CNN. I know identical triplets are rare, but I don't think they're as rare as the article states (1 in 200 million). I thought it was around 1 in 25 million. Either way, I don't get why it made international news. It must have been a slow news day.

"Rare Identical Triplets Born in Austria"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20180886/from/ET/

Does anyone know how to change the appearance of a link (above) to display my own text instead of the web address?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Shawna - you can go in to "edit posts" and pull up this post. Then, at the tab at the top, go to "Edit HTML" (it probably defaults to "Compose". You will see all of the cyber-talk (a.k.a. HTML!). Find your link and change the part inbetween the and to the words you want. Make sense?? For example, right now it probably says, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20180886/from/ET/. change the part in the middle (in between the > and the <) to say "article" or whatever it is you want it to say. Yikes - is this confusing?

Anyway - had to comment on this... on Good Morning America a few weeks ago there was some "rare" triplet family as well - TWO of the triplets were identical and the third fraternal! I was like, "Am I missing something?"

Take care!
Kara

Anonymous said...

Darn it - it changed mine in to links! Okay - let's try this again. We'll need a code.... the [ should be a < and the ] should be a > .......

So - right now it probably says [a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20180886/from/ET/"] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20180886/from/ET/ [/a] Remember - those [ and ] are really < and >. Change what is in between the > and < to the words you want!