Re: Harry Potter - no actual spoiler, just a complaint
On 26 Jul 2005, at 11:18 am, William T Goodall wrote: On 17 Jul 2005, at 3:45 am, Max Battcher wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: THERE IS A MISTAKE ON PAGE 10! At least in the US edition. Was Gautam reading too fast to catch it? :) Julia who is on page 10 The sight/site switch? Jumps off the page, doesn't it? Although I'm of the opinion that book editors are getting sloppier and sloppier lately. If I had cataloged all of the recent mistakes that had jumped out at me from big name books I think I might have a very long list. I wish I got paid every time I discovered an editing mistake. I think it was Harlan Ellison who wrote a big rant about 25 years ago about the declining standards of copy editing :) Now I'm just used to seeing 'baited breath' and such in every book. The other problem is spelling checkers and search and replace garbling text. I just read the story 'Marcher' by Chris Beckett in Dozois' nineteenth annual best sf and the main character is called Huw (a Welsh name). Huw did you get on? is supposed to be How did you get on? I suspect. Just about every story in the book has some kind of mistake in it. Twentieth Year's Best, first story There were storms, and white crackles of lightening, ... I suppose if I were really generous I might let that pass as a deliberate archaism. But I'm not :) And there aren't other archaisms in the text to suggest it might have been meant. And that wasn't the first problem with the first story, I just couldn't be bothered looking back after I got annoyed by this one. -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. - Ken Olsen, President of DEC, 1984. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Widely different reports of prison rape between UK and US
From my blog I had a link to a London commentary: How Blair's War on Terror differs from Bush's Britain follows the law. Almost every significant aspect of the investigation to bring the London terrorists to justice is the opposite of Bush's war on terrorism. From the leading role of Scotland Yard to the close cooperation with police, the British effort is at odds with the US operation directed by the Pentagon. Just months before the London bombings, upon visiting the Guantánamo prison, British counter-terrorism officials were startled that they did not meet with legal authorities, but only military personnel; they were also disturbed to learn that the information they gathered from the CIA was unknown to the FBI counter-terrorism team and that the British were the only channel between them. The British discovered that the New York City Police Department's counter-terrorism unit was more synchronised with its methods and aims than the US government was. Gary Denton Easter Lemming Liberal News Digest http://elemming2.blogspot.com On 8/4/05, Adrian Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4 Aug 2005, at 19:56, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: [snip] Perhaps apropos of the subject line, from CNN this morning concerning the recent bombings in London and showing some differences between UK and US reporting of crime in their own words: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/04/london.bombings.briefing/ index.html [snip] See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4746835.stm a mildly different perspective. Adrian -- ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: SCOUTED: War on Terror: RIP
The Daily Show had the perfect call out on Bush on that with reporting from Times Square that the War on Terror had been won. On 8/4/05, Warren Ockrassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 4, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 4, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Gary Denton wrote: Of course, now the Prez is back to calling it the War against Terror. That's a little surprising to me, because despite his linguistic disabilities, he seems to be pretty good message discipline. Maybe they decided not to change the term, after all. They may have realized that the liberal media recognized what they were trying to do and called them on it, and for once decide NOT to try to pull a fast one. (Holy shit, even I don't believe that.) -- Gary Denton http://www.apollocon.org June 23-25, 2006 Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemming.blogspot.com http://elemming2.blogspot.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
How pregnancy happens
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Re: How pregnancy happens
On Aug 5, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Gary Denton wrote: http://tinyurl.com/bpsnd Hilarious delivery of serious content. Note: May not be entirely safe for work. Stylized talking sex organs and ... umm ... genetic material are depicted. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
T-shirts to support Gold Star Families for Peace
If anyone here is interested... profits go to GSFP. http://www.zazzle.com/products/product/product.asp?product%5Fid=235166060135569400 Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voicemail: 408-904-7198 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: How pregnancy happens
On Aug 5, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Dave Land wrote: On Aug 5, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Gary Denton wrote: http://tinyurl.com/bpsnd Hilarious delivery of serious content. Wait, I'm confused. Where are the storks? Note: May not be entirely safe for work. Stylized talking sex organs and ... umm ... genetic material are depicted. Sort of gives the term Reddi Whip a whole new meaning. -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress The Seven-Year Mirror http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
