Kerning Fail

Here's a screen grab from the SHN-SF (Shorenstein Hays Nederlander San Francisco) website (click on the picture to enlarge).

"Arts Exchange" is a service where SHN subscribers can sell their tickets that they can't use.

But I have no idea what "ART SEXCHANGE" is.

Probably Bad News

If you're a fan of the likes of FailBlog or Totally Looks Like, then you should check out the new blog, Probably Bad News.

It is like FailBlog, but with a more narrow focus -- print and broadcast news Fails (like the sample to the right). There are a few I've seen before, such as the photo of a pregnant woman smoking a cigarette with the caption, "...worries about the effect on her unborn child from the sound of jackhammers." But there are many that I've not seen before.

It's still young, so the complete content is currently only about four or five pages long.

Vegetarian Fail

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My phone did it....

From The Inquirer (via Gizmodo):

A woman wrote to the Apple Forum to ask, "I took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo account). When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) he admitted that he took the picture but says that he never sent it to anyone. He claims that he went to the Genius Bar at the local Apple store and they told him that it is an i-phone glitch: that photos sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent. Has anyone ever heard of this happening?"

This is, of course, followed by a long string of people saying "This does not happen," "I've never heard of such a thing," "He's lying," "Dump him," things like that.

Crime of the week

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Saving Time FAIL

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Daylight Saving Time is ruining the environment!

Typo vigilantes

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Courtesy of PK, who pointed out an article in The Arizona Republic:

Two men who went around the country correcting typos on public signs are now banned from national parks.

Apparently, they are suspected of using correction fluid and a permanent marker to correct a sign that was a "unique and irreplaceable" sign painted by artist Mary Colter.

"An affidavit by National Park Service agent Christopher A. Smith says investigators learned of the vandalism from an Internet site operated by (Jeff Michael) Deck on behalf of the Typo Eradication Advancement League, or TEAL. Smith identified four members, but only Deck and (Benjamin Douglas) Herson faced charges."

Deck recorded the having done the deed in his diary. "After correcting a misplaced apostrophe and comma, Deck reported, he was aghast to discover what he described as a made-up word: 'emense.'

"'I was reluctant to disfigure the sign any further, so we had to let the other typo stand. Still, I think I shall be haunted by that perversity.'"

The Chicago Tribune has a long and interesting article, including this entertaining interchange:

"We started down Milwaukee Avenue.

"Immediately, Herson spotted an offense—a second-floor awning outside a tarot shop that advertised 'Energy Stone's.' They climbed the stairs to the second floor and approached a middle-age woman with a quizzical expression. 'We happened to notice the sign for energy stones,' Deck said, 'and there happens to be an extra apostrophe. "Stone's" doesn't need the apostrophe.'

"'And?' she asked, her voice flat with annoyance.

"'And we wanted to bring it to your attention,' Deck said.

"As they spoke, the woman's daughter stepped into the room and shouted: 'Oh my God! I saw you guys on "Good Morning America." Tell me, tell me—what did we get wrong?" She sounded genuinely thrilled. (Actually, they were on 'The Today Show.') Herson explained the typo on the awning. Deck said he understood that the mistake is out of the way and not easy to fix, but he asked them to promise that they would fix it—soon.

"'Don't know if we can ...' the woman said.

"Deck said they've heard that a lot."

According to NPR, "Deck even found a misspelling on his doctor's business cards — which read "referal" instead of "referral." He mentioned it to the clerk, saying, "There's no way this is going to get fixed, is there?" And indeed, there was not."

The TEAL website currently only displays a message, "Statement on the signage of our National Parks and public lands to come" (which is, ironically, a sentence fragment with no period at its end). Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Couldn't resist posting this

From FAIL Blog comes this news clip about a police officer who confiscated marijuana from some suspects, took the marijuana home and made some brownies.

FAIL Blog

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From the good people who brought you "I Can Has Cheezburger," a new blog (well, a relatively recent blog, anyhow) devoted to photos and videos illustrating the ICHC captions/tags, "FAIL," "OWNED" and "PWNED" (and all variations of them).

Examples:

A protester holding a sign reading, "AMERICANS HELP US BOYCOTT MEXICO RESPECT ARE COUNTRY SPEAK ENGLISH"

Another holding a sign that reads, "Get A BRAIN! MORANS."

Packaged hamburgers with the brand name "Barfy."

Graffiti with a pentagram and the slogan, "HAIL SATIN."

A kid at a spelling bee with a distressed look on his face, labeled "F-A-L-E."