Heaneyland!

Usually when I see this error, it's from a non-Internet-savvy Windows user. Because IE is totally fucking retarded (not that I have an opinion about this or anything) and allows backslashes to be used in a URL instead of slashes, these users start referring to all slashes as a "backslash" in speech and in print. Thus I ascribe this error more to Microsoft rather than the Internet -- another tiny bit of evidence of Bill Gates' evil plot to take over the world.

(And yes, I know that the reason IE allows backslashes is because it makes sense in context of 'file' URLs, and also because it helps clueless users, but still: it doesn't follow the spec, and therefore, it's wrong.)

Hmmmm. I think this calls for a Six Things entry.

Please.

It's funny: the only reason I can keep these two straight is because I use them on a keyboard, usually while on the internet.

"/" is the one you use more often, so it's set closer on the keyboard to the "home keys," within easy reach. "\" is out of the way, far northeast of your rightmost finger (which by itself is tiny and difficult to control), and I'm not sure I've ever used it. Hence, "/" gets the unmarked title as just the "slash," while "\" is marked as backwards in relation to the original slash.

None of which, of course, is to be confused with Slash or Slash. (Sorry, I just had to.)

I have nothing on-topic to add here. If you can't summon up the wherewithal for Six Things, how about Three Things? Or at least a Nice Pair of Things? The people have spoken, and they want their Things.

I'd even settle for One Thing.

But I think we'd all agree that Half a Thing would not quite slake our thirst for Things...

While I agree that Half a Thing would be disappointing, I would gladly accept Six Twelfth-Things.

Six Twelfth Things? They sound...small.

I'd settle for 80% of a thing, though I admit it would seem a bit... thin.