Thursday, June 17, 2010

Sure, it's shallow water near the coast

Link:


Monday, September 14, 2009

Amphibian problem

From this "for sale by owner" listing:



















[Click to enlarge, until I get used to the new programs ;-)]


This is a skink (from Virginia Herpetological Society):

We'll be back!

We've been ill with flu and had to replace the computer and other drudgery.

We'll be back with more typos and awful grammar in a day or two.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Twitter me this

I've rarely used Twitter and have no earthly idea what twitterhit is.

Looks like somebody should be proofreading:

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Oh, no, Spock!

Link:





If the mainstream media can't get the spelling correct, are they reporting anything factually?

This can't be the first time Esquire has printed Nimoy's name.

UPDATE: Esquire spelled it correctly nine times in the past.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Munch ado

It's discouraging when professionals can't spell somebody's name correctly, and consistently, throughout one article.

Link:


Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Want did you say?

Not a spelling error or typo, but another example of poor or no proofreading at The Daily Snooze. Found by Apostrophe Teen. Link:

Thursday, July 16, 2009

There's an echo in here

Software problems at the Daily News?

Link (at the time of posting):








There are two identical articles, here and here.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

They hit a triple

Link (July 15, 2009 evening):













As of post time, they had three different links, too:

Here

Here

And here.