Amusing typogarphical errors 1 7 Sep 2007 theotre: a church or temple, wherein gods are displayed and perform… Humor
General Science On ID and the public awareness of evolution 20 Apr 2008 Imagine a scientific theory that very few people know or understand. Let’s call it “valency theory“. Now suppose someone objects to valency theory because it undercuts their view of a particular religious doctrine, such as transubstantiation. So they gather money from rich members of their faith community and start a… Read More
Humor The “Get a life” meme 19 Dec 2008 Oh dear. I have a bad feeling about this. Via Greg Laden’s blog comes a list of 219 movies and supposedly if you have seen more than 85 you have no life… Prepare yourself Read More
Humor Civil insolence 22 Jan 2010 I am vaguely amused and slightly disgusted that the issue over which I left Science Blogs is still going. Henry Gee writes of it at the recent ScienceOnline2010 meet. I was mentioned in despatches, so I replied thus: The reason I left Science Blogs was in very large part because… Read More
John, your post brings to mind an article I once read about single letter typos. It may have been in Scientific Armenian some decades ago. An example from the article was ‘I love your daughter’ instead of ‘I love your laughter’, and the trouble that could ensue from such a miss-print. A possessive father might think such laughter warrant slaughter. You see how it goes. Slightly off-topic is second guessing what the current POTUS might mean when he utters anything at all. Verbal typos, as it were. We think we know he meant ‘Australian’ when he recently commented on ‘Austrian’ troops in Iraq, and we think we know he meant ‘APEC’ when he spoke of ‘OPEC’ at the same venue. And this leads me to wonder if his advisers and staff have to continuousloy second-guess the meaning of anything he says or any instructions he gives them, and what the consequence of getting it wrong might be. An example: ‘Lynch them assholes’ or ‘Launch the missiles’ springs to mind. A nutter failure to communicate.