Friday, September 26, 2014

Don't Remember that Plot Point

Looking for books on the French law of successions and this came up on Worldcat:



I don't remember that part of the movie from when I was a kid. Don't think the professor needs this.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

New York Times: One Letter, One Hell of Typo

Reading yesterday’s New York Times - in print - this sentence caught my eye:



Wait, why was someone protesting “the Church of Scientology for the Killing of Michael Brown in Fergeson, Mo.” ?

Of course, it’s a typo, but a hell of a typo: that same article on-line now reads:



"For" vs "or" - a single letter makes a big difference. The online version also has a correction statement apologizing for the error; the print version, as of this morning, did not.

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