I made constructive criticism pointing out that your blurb is presenting incorrect information. Instead of considering that possibility, you got defensive, said that your information was up to interpretation (comparing it to believing in God!), and called me a bully. I've pointed out incorrect info in your blurbs a number of times, to try to be helpful (you even thanked me a couple of times). Don't worry, I won't do it again. If you want to post blurbs that have incorrect information, missing words, sloppy typing, etc., go right ahead. Because of Xomba's high page rank, your blurbs may well appear high on Google results. But here's a hint: when people are doing a Web search to find info on a topic quickly, they might well decide that a search result that is badly worded, has misspellings, or is inaccurate may not be a good source of information. So they may well decide to skip your blurbs and click on someone else's.

about which you should be an expert. Idle is trying to help you. dr2dr is getting close to a warning for all the dupes. Nah. I'd have already given him a gentle warning. Maybe I should try to explain something. . . There has never been a swapping of the north and south geographic poles. These are the spin-axis poles. This is the axis of rotation. Imagine stopping the earths rotation. That is a lot of angular momentum. Hasn't happened. The earth's crust is not strong enough for a manuever that would involve pole swapping. The north/south pole changes are only in the magnetic poles, and that is not an over-nighter change. Some times the earth is without a significant or directed magnetic field for several thousand years. s'long

Sorry, guys, hope I am not intruding... Just happened to read these comments and wanted to say this to dr2dr and champagnedreams Idlewild is just trying to guide you to do the right thing, that is "rewrite" the blurb so as to insert some element of doubt in it, specially if you yourself are not convinced about what, the webpage or author that you are pointing to, is saying. That way you are actually "not" taking any responsibility for the claims that are being made. Thus, you can say: This "may" happen, or the author "believes" that the poles will shift by 2012 and that this event "if" happened that way "may" cause calamities! Or whatever! You get the drift. dr2dr, I think, Idlewild has been on this site long enough to know what a "blurb" means. give him some credit guys...! idlewild: - Sorry for interfering! My apologies. Hope you don't mind my intrusion. (Just reminded me of the time when I had joined the site and used to get irritated with similar comments made by mythman on most of my blurbs!) I realized now (after so many days on the site) that I was wrong about him! He is now in my buddy list!