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My analytics tool is feeling optimistic
Here's a high-quality prediction from HBX! For my original blog post, see engineroomblog.blogspot.com/2009 /10/my-metrics-tool-is-fe...
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Uploaded on Apr 19, 2010
A generation hat is ignored and scorned
A great headline typo spotted on the Daily Express website. For my original blog post,...
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Uploaded on Apr 18, 2010
2000A post may have at most labels.
Bizarre Blogger error seen when your blog has more than 2000 tags (labels). For my original blog...
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Uploaded on Apr 6, 2010
Example of infer/imply confusion
I spotted this in an company course on competition laws. For my original blog post, see engineroomblog.blogspot.com/2009 /10/photo-special-infer-i...
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Uploaded on Apr 3, 2010
Leona Lewis 'OK' after fan attack
Even if the man who attacked Leona Lewis bought a copy of her autobiography and queued up nicely...
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Uploaded on Apr 2, 2010
Cambridge, Home of Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge, home of Anglia Ruskin University. Wait a minute - isn't there another university in...
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Uploaded on Mar 13, 2010
Grant seals return to Portsmouth
Ambiguous BBC Sport headline: the story isn't about seals. For my original blog post,...
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Uploaded on Jan 24, 2010
James Brown wants some asymmetric bars
A spam email I received from 'James Brown' wanting some asymmetric bars. Probably not the...
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Uploaded on Jan 3, 2010
David Enrico? No, Enrico David
The picture caption says 'David Enrico' but the artist's name is Enrico David (as the body...
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Uploaded on Jan 1, 2010
It's 0 Aug 2009
My web mail seems to be inventing dates of its own! For my original blog post, see engineroomblog.blogspot.com/2009 /10/its-0-aug-2009.html
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Uploaded on Dec 30, 2009
Headlines: 'Brown book breaks record in hours'
The ninth headline down in this BBC News widget is rather ambiguous. 'Brown' refers to the author...
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Uploaded on Dec 29, 2009
Timothy Dalton 'playing hedgehog called Mr Pricklepants'
News stories, in print and online, can catch your eye for all sorts of reasons. Absurdity is one...
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Uploaded on Dec 28, 2009
Ambiguous headline: 'Gordon Brown ordered mission to free kidnapped reporter'
Why would a mission hold a journalist? Why would Gordon Brown give it orders? For my original blog...
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Uploaded on Dec 21, 2009
England is a place next to the Wirral
Look closely at this Multimap map - it appears that (the) Wirral and England are two neighbouring...
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Uploaded on Dec 8, 2009
Juxtaposition: cocaine deaths / adult cot death
Shockingly, the picture caption ("'Angel' who died in her sleep at 16'") is...
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Uploaded on Dec 1, 2009
Twitter evidence that GCSEs are easy
Among Twitter's trending topics when the GCSE results came out in August 2009 were GCSE, A's, B's...
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Uploaded on Nov 30, 2009
'Partner' as a verb, and tense confusion
'Partner' is being used as a verb in this advert for Verizon, so I would have opted for 'why don't...
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Uploaded on Nov 28, 2009
Savoury cheese on a soft white bap
Is the cheese savoury as in 'appetizing' or savoury as in 'the opposite of sweet' - or is there...
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Uploaded on Nov 25, 2009
BBC blunders
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