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little gems of wisdom from Wired.com
Mar. 17th, 2003 09:21 pmAmericans are turning to foreign news websites for war coverage - I don't know about anyone else, but I've been relying on the BBC for months now. They may be owned by the British government, but at least that doesn't give them more incentive to gloss over news about the American government.
Spell check is over-rated - well, duh :P English is a complicated language where there are oh, so many ways to spell it right but still get it wrong (they're/their/there, anyone?). In recent years I've run across books with glaring grammatical/usage errors that tells me that the publisher only used an electronic editor, if that. More proof that computers ARE dumb, and just do what we tell them.
Spell check is over-rated - well, duh :P English is a complicated language where there are oh, so many ways to spell it right but still get it wrong (they're/their/there, anyone?). In recent years I've run across books with glaring grammatical/usage errors that tells me that the publisher only used an electronic editor, if that. More proof that computers ARE dumb, and just do what we tell them.
