Archive for Errors
Ars Technica reports: “A years-old, one-letter typo led to Aliens: Colonial Marines‘ weird AI.” I mention this for a couple of reasons: I’m amused that a typo can make such a big difference. Another reason the world needs editors! Or at least proofreaders. Or at least code that doesn’t necessarily silently discard unfamiliar words. (In […]
I was momentarily very confused by this phrase in a news article: Google also just launchedits own audiobook service In particular, I wondered what launch edits were. Eventually I figured out there was a space missing after the d, and that phrase was meant to be launched its.
Researchers at U. Penn have created software that generates typos. Give it a phrase, and it will generate a list of variants on that phrase, featuring things like missing letters,...
Not long ago, I read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (in a printed copy, on paper—the relevance of which I'll explain later), and was struck by this...
Just encountered an amusing typo in a news article: “old win in new bottles.” I suppose the opposite of that is old fail in new bottles....
I have some sympathy for this kind of construction, 'cause I've done it too: There's no way to two-step around the fact that season 11 of Dancing with the Stars...
Several years ago, I took a sideswipe at “literally” in an entry about something else. John S and Shmuel both gently pointed out that I was wrong to be fussy...
Best recent line from a spam comment: For that brief moment of today I had a little bit of sanity and than I had to hit the pavement to go...
This just in from the AP, by way of AOL: [...] spacewalking repairs may be needed sometime after Discovery leaves this weekend. The problem is exasperated by the fact that...
Just saw this in a blog entry at alternet: One of the lawyers handling the case for the defendants (that is, defending the constitutionality of Prop. sent us a note...