Cheers!
659 posted on 11/17/2005 4:34:56 AM CST by Ichneumon
To bookmark an individual FreeRepublic post (at least in Internet Explorer, but a similar sequence should work in most browsers), go to the end of the post, where it says: "[postnumber] by [so-and-so]", and *right*-click your mouse on the [postnumber] part. This should bring up a little menu that includes, among other things, the entry "Add to Favorites...". Select this menu item, and it'll add it to your browser's bookmarks (just like any other web page you want to bookmark). You might want to give it a more useful name before you save it, though.
If that doesn't work in your browser, you can achieve the same results a bit indirectly by *left*clicking on the [postnumber] part. That will switch to a "page" which begins at that post, and has a URL address like: "http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522991/posts?page=659#659", which jumps straight to that post within the thread page. Then you can bookmark *that* in the usual way (i.e. the same way you would bookmark any normal web page), and when you bring that bookmark back up, it'll reload the thread page and jump directly to that one post.
(Caveat: When images load on the thread, it can make the "view window" hop up and down, which sometimes leaves the desired bookmarked post not quite centered on screen like it's supposed to, or even scrolled entirely up/down too far to still be visible. If that happens, note the "659#659" suffix on the page URL, and scroll back to that post number.)
Sorry if the long explanations make it sound complicated, but it's not too bad once you get the hang of it.
Oh, and you might also want to read this earlier thread, which discussed that second paper: Systemic determinants of gene evolution and function