Internet Recycling

The longer you use the Internet the more you appreciate that there's very little new.  Things go in two or three year cycles. That just occurred to me when I saw this hot off the press story on the Indy website.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-homer-simpson-discovered-the-higgs-boson-over-a-decade-before-scientists-10079006.html

But, I had an inkling that I'd seen it before.  In fact I had - a couple of years back.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/10/29/the_simpsons_and_fermat_s_last_theorem_wizard_of_evergreen_terrace_has_brilliant.html

So, this sparked my curiosity as to whether there was an older mention. Well, yes...

https://spinor.info/weblog/?p=1591

...almost five years ago now, and the Independent has used just about the same picture.  I know the Indy is going down the tubes, but it could at least have provided linkage to other's material, like the Beeb does.