Hey, Washington Post -- this is what happens when you lay off 2/3 of your staff. I'd be embarrassed if this went out on the news feed from my tiny nonprofit organization.
As a historian I am of course tickled pink that muslin, the cotton fabric at the center of the Industrial Revolution, has been given its own research center. 😜 @histodons#histodons#histodon#history#typo
It turns out that Gollum survived his fall into the lava, laid low for a few thousand years, and now makes a living as a web designer for clothing sites.
392 years ago, the English mathematician and clergyman William Oughtred introduced the multiplication sign ✕ for the first time. via @fermatslibrary.
Oughtred was the first to use logarithmic scales and sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and division. He is credited with inventing the slide rule in about 1622. He also introduced the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for the sine and cosine functions. via @wikipedia
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I am glad to know who is responsible for these #math concepts I take for granted. I got my first #calculator in 7th grade. Our math #teacher warned us not to rely on #calculators because "Sometimes they're wrong!" One of my #CivilEngineering#professors used a #SlideRule to show the importance of understanding the quantities we're working with rather than blindly accepting the results from a #computer. One #typo can lead to disaster. I now have my own slide rule.
Blink (Chromium, Chrome, Brave, Edge...) now implements the hyphenate-limit-chars property. This is great news for typesetting in #cssprint ! Seven years I've been waiting for this feature 🎉, beautiful day in web practices. (@firefox we're waiting for you :ablobcatheartsqueeze:)
Steady flow of email traffic continues to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, as a result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix to all US military email addresses. Control of the .ML domain will revert on Monday to Mali’s government, which is closely allied with Russia.
There are plenty of typos in journal papers but this one about cooing powders was just too adorable not to be a cartoon (HT to our discord member rabbit for pointing out this one!) If you know of any, send them to us! Or share them on your story and tag @errantscience#errantscience#cartoon#comic#science#academia#journal#typo
Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator (archive.is)
Steady flow of email traffic continues to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, as a result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix to all US military email addresses. Control of the .ML domain will revert on Monday to Mali’s government, which is closely allied with Russia.