---
title: "When links attack"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/when-links-attack.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/4/13/when-links-attack.html"
published: "2004-04-13T14:24:00"
updated: "2004-04-13T14:24:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Chris Fralic sends us a pointer to the Product Quick Links page of the Five Star Billiards, Inc. website. This page lists hundreds of products in no discernable order. It should definitely not be called the \"Quick…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# When links attack

By Roy Osherove April 13, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published April 13, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

_Chris Fralic sends us a pointer to the_ [_Product Quick Links_](http://www.fivestarbilliards.com/thestore/) _page of the Five Star Billiards, Inc. website. This page lists hundreds of products in no discernable order. It should definitely not be called the "Quick Links" page. Chris adds, "It's almost a thing of beauty - there are patterns emerging in this sea of links..."_

\[via [This is Broken](http://broken.typepad.com/b/)\]

Truly, I'm seeing some patterns in there....

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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