Saturday, April 11, 2009

Blockbuster's Televison


As seen today on Blockbuster's website. We're mainly into the movie rental thing; why should we care if we spell "television" wrong?

Monday, March 30, 2009

We's Lorem Ipsum Dolore


Not exactly a typo, I suppose, but worth noting: a commercial for the We Network's new website slaps us the ol' "Lorem Ipsum Dolore," the dummy text based on Cicero that's been an industry standard since the 1500s. It's not supposed to be distracting, but I can't imagine having missed it.

Friday, March 20, 2009

"Today Show" Febuary Stats

From today's broadcast; another "Today Show" typo or creative phonetic spelling? You decide.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

CNET's Readibility Problems

CNET shows its spelling prowess in this new YouTube video comparing the Kindle 2 and the Sony PRS-700. For my money you lose some of your credibility on eReaders when you can't spell words like "readability" right.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

L.A. Daily News' Endosement

It might have been okay in the '60s, when everybody was endosing everybody, but in the more reasonably-minded '00s the Daily News should just say no. These kind of shenanigans never went down when I was working there! Thanks to Debbie for the great catch.