Archive for November, 2005


from theregister.co.uk, where the word “are” is missing from the last sentence

Is this ironic, or what? The title of the article “Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems” refers to quality problems of another web site, and the article on this web site has a typo.

Screen grab from The Register online by Thomas on November 1, 2005.

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