Headlines to confuse time travelers
Just saw this headline: 77 Percent of Android Devices Running Eclair, Froyo And I wondered: if a time traveler from fifty or a hundred years ago saw that headline, what...
Archive for Headlines
The future of pot is hazy. Get it? Get it? I made a joke!
Nearly every major-news-venue article I've seen about California's Proposition 19 (the one to legalize marijuana) has used the word “hazy” and/or some other pun about marijuana smoke or getting high....
Comma, importance of
Back in March, I came across this AP headline: More than math, reading important I read it as saying that reading was more important than math, but the article is...
Placeholders appear in newspaper
Some years back, I saw an employment ad for a major computer company in which all the text said "Lorem ipsum." Clearly someone was supposed to fill in actual copy,...
It never calls, it never writes
Headline today on the BBC website: Pope could make Birmingham visit Birmingham hasn't visited in months, and I was beginning to think it never would. So I'm pleased to see...
attosecond
I know what an attosecond is. (It's 10-18 seconds.) What surprised me was seeing the word used metaphorically and in passing in a general-interest news article: Stress may be most...
Ambiguous headline
AP headline this morning: Obama ventures back to hurting region _ with money I think that underscore was intended to be a dash, but either way, I initially read the...
Headline
Headline from a news story: Gay rights activist makes Clinton stop What did the activist make Clinton stop doing, and was it President Clinton or Secretary Clinton? Answer: Neither: the...
Punny name headline
A headline I saw in late October, apparently provided by Dow Jones Newswires, read: CORRECT: Microsoft Executive Is Harry Patz, Not Putz The corrected article is titled "Wireless Carriers Target...
freeze victims
I was very amused by this headline from One Bakersfield Online today: Bills would provide $1.2 billion to freeze victims in California Turns out it's referring to money that would...