I am annoyed by sloppy journalism

I saw several reports yesterday talking about how the Swedish edition of a toy catalogue had all of the gender roles swapped. And this annoyed me a bit at the time, because I think that you catalogues should be inclusive, but swapping it entirely over didn't make a lot of sense to me.

And then today I saw this article, which shows some more pages, making it clear that actually the catalogue doesn't swap the genders, it simply includes both girls and boys playing with the same kinds of toys. Which makes a hell of a lot more sense.

All of which makes me happy (for the toy catalogue) and bloody annoyed (at headline-seeking journalists not doing a decent job).

Interesting Links for 27-11-2012

• The Government threw away the best programme to get youths into jobs
  (tags: jobs employment uk government )
• A new mathematical proof - and the new mathematics produced to arrive at it. Fascinating stuff.
  (tags: mathematics )
• Former OED editor covertly deleted thousand of words
  (tags: english dictionary )
• Blind patient reads words stimulated directly onto the retina (in Braille)
  (tags: cybernetics technology blind )
• Things you don't want to hear about the job you're just about to start #533
  (tags: funny crime games jobs )
• How Britain could leave the EU
  (tags: viaNWhyte europe eu uk )
• Children exposed to traffic pollution three times as likely to be autistic.
  (tags: autism pollution )

I had no idea The Muppets had a Christmas song out

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