One of those posts that hasn't made it across the DW/LJ barrier

In answer to my question "Has Rufus Wainwright ever done a cover of "I Kissed a Girl"?", azurelunatic pointed this out:

One of those posts that hasn't made it across the DW/LJ barrier

In answer to my question "Has Rufus Wainwright ever done a cover of "I Kissed a Girl"?", azurelunatic pointed this out:

As pointed out in email

Into the New Millennium: Trailblazing Tales From Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2000 - 2010

T   M   F   F/M  F/T
18  14  4   .28  0.22

For comparison, the most recent year of Analog looked like this:

T   M   F  ? F/M  F/T
75  64 10  1 0.15 0.13 

One of those posts that hasn't made it across the DW/LJ barrier

In answer to my question "Has Rufus Wainwright ever done a cover of "I Kissed a Girl"?", Azurelunatic pointed this out:

Full disclosure

I am not sure what stats for 2011 or 2010 look like but I do have an excel file with data for Direct for 2009. My gut feeling was that I read about as many men as women. Then I started clicking in the Ms and Fs into the database and it sure felt like I was clicking M often than F. The final numbers were
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NASA's Kepler Confirms Its First Planet In Habitable Zone

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host star. Candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets.

The newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b, is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. The planet is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth. Scientists don't yet know if Kepler-22b has a predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition, but its discovery is a step closer to finding Earth-like planets.