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People
Semi-Celebrities Finally Have A Place To Go To Complain About The Internet
3:56AM John Cook | One of the tragedies of being marginally famous is that people can write true things about you that you don’t like on the internet. Well now, thanks to a knight, these lost souls finally have recourse: iCorrect, the internet’s premiere source for niggling, picayune corrections from people you don’t particularly care about. More »
Online
Yahoo! Can’t Tell The Difference Between Yoko Ono And World Of Warcraft Monster
7:50PM Max Read | “John Lennon’s family and friends today”: What do they look like? According to Yahoo!, taking a page from the Washington Post, they look like a World of Warcraft orc or monster or something. No wonder the Beatles broke up!
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Your Page Six Error Of The Day: Misspelled Name Edition
2:58AM Brian Moylan | Ever since editor Emily Smith took over, Page Six has been making lots of sloppy errors. Today the name of Susan Sarandon’s youthful boyfriend, Jonathan Bricklin, was misspelled in the headline! At least it’s since been corrected. This could be a sign of progress!
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Is Page Six Going To Hell Already?
7:06AM Brian Moylan | The New York Post‘s gossip column Page Six issued a correction today but it still hasn’t caught two mistakes it made the day before yesterday. Is new editor Emily Smith really ready to take over the storied gossip column? More »
Online
Is This The Best Correction Of The Year?
4:33PM Max Read | In case there was any confusion: “This blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men.” More »
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This Year’s Best New York Times Correction (So Far)
10:52AM Max Read | Did you read about a slideshow of ugly undersea creatures on the New York Times‘ website on Friday? If so, the Times is deeply sorry and would like to offer the following clarification: More »
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British Newspaper Has Given Up On Writing Headlines Entirely
2:21AM Brian Moylan | The cover of yesterday’s British newspaper Times & Citizen never bothered to replace the filler text for its main feature story headline. We know things are rough out there, but here’s what happens when you let the copy editors go.
Flotsam & Jetsam
Correction: Turning On The Light To Pee At Night Does Not Cause Cancer
1:00PM Adrian Chen | A while back we alerted you to a study that the Daily Mail reported suggested turning on the light during a late-night trip to the bathroom causes cancer. Turns out, unsurprisingly, that this is complete bullshit! The Guardian today points out that this has been debunked in a number of places on the internet. The study’s authors told AOL Health that: More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Hot Blonde Women Are No More Entitled Than Other Hot Women
10:31PM Ravi Somaiya | Yesterday everyone, including us, went all frothy for a story about blonde women being more war-like and determined than others. Turns out it was kind of false. Here’s how it spread. More »
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