While he's having this burst of blogging energy, Mr. Rewrite will resume summing up tweets from the past week ...
In the photo above, this mobile glass-replacement firm apparently has mistaken itself for a service station.
Mr. Rewrite was proud of his contributions to Mashable's request for #canceledwebshows, suggestions of TV program names tweaked to have Web/social media themes:
- "BFFy the Vampire Slayer"
- "Rowan & Martin’s LinkedIn"
- "The Odd Coupler"
- "TAG" (spinoff of "JAG")"
- "My Cousin URL"
- "The Dick Van Like Show"
- "Hawaii Five-2.0"
- "Doogie Browser, M.D."
- This proper noun inconsistency turned Mr. Rewrite away from buying a pack of Myntz (not Mynts): pic.twitter.com/BNFqhvkM
- A report says Nigerian scammers deliberately make spelling and grammar errors to weed out intelligent people: http://shar.es/tGizy
- A misspelled name in a background check clears the way for felon to work with seniors: http://tinyurl.com/7f5rwkn
From the irony-in-education file:
- Misspelling a school's name prompts quite a few corrections years later: http://bit.ly/MnbEee
- A spelling error on diplomas teaches graduates in New Jersey's Boonton (not Booton) Township one more lesson: http://tinyurl.com/789qblf
And the potpourri file:
- A Minnesota Twins pitcher (Manship, not Mansihp) falls victim to spelling error on his jersey: http://bit.ly/LLSRMl
- A cycling time trail at the London Olympics? That's what the tickets say: http://soc.li/6FS3V5E
- If a spelling error by Google leaves a village off the map, does said village still exist? http://t.co/IiDULSxl


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