GeoCities lingered for a day, but has shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. Over at Speed Force, I wrote a piece on GeoCities, RIP: Fandom’s Lost Pages.
Interesting typo seen on a mailing list: “com and line option.” (command line)
Saw a good typo on a tech forum: Windows XP “Service Park 2”
Also realized while writing “Go to Help…” that it would be easy to make a very unfortunate typo.
Guardian science editor’s daughter gets measles. He’s angry with the anti-vaccination brigade.
Just to show that English-language sign writers don’t have a monopoly on misspellings, here’s a sign we spotted at a construction site in Irvine:
Literally it means “Think Safety” — or it would if it said “Piense seguridad.” The typo makes this the Spanish equivalent of “Saftey First.”
