Posts archive for: 26 December, 2007
  • Interesting Headline

    Pay No Attention To the Condom-Fingered Googler Behind the Curtain

    I just had to read further when I came across this headline.

    Did you ever wonder how Google is scanning all of those books that are going in their massive Google Book Search project? Well, you can get a pretty good clue by looking at the second and third pages of The Gentleman's Magazine: the scanning is being done by taking ordinary pictures of the pages, and the pages (at least some of them) are arranged by a lady wearing red fingernail polish, a couple of gold rings, and latex covers on her first and second fingers—covers that look notably like condoms.

  • Relying on your spellchecker

    All these proofreading errors are from US newspapers.

    Horace Mann School for the Dead and Hard of Hearing.

    The report was signed by five faulty members of the university.(faculty)

    The parking meters will permit parking for ten dents per hour.(cents)

    The bride collapsed killing five people. (bridge)

    The president, who has been sick for several days, is now in bed with a coed. (cold)

    Each evening will consist of a four-curse menu.

    Advanced Life Painting Studio. This group grows out of a need for professional artists to have an opportunity to paint from the model. Tuition includes model feel. (fee)

    They were married and lived happily even after.

    The new Miss America will be drowned later before a nationwide television audience. (crowned)

    Mr. Ballard, who has been very ill the past week, is still under the car of Dr. Goldman.

    A Census Bureau report revealed today that Southern girls do marry at an early urge.

    James and Phoebe Cummings celebrated their 50th anniversary on May 26. They renewed their rows at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

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