Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-3-2010

[andrewducker]

• Dissecting Blair’s chapter on Iraq
  (tags: war iraq politics tonyblair uk)
• Researchers discover how to conduct first test of 'untestable' string theory
  (tags: physics stringtheory)
• Hair shows chronic stress/cortisol link to heart attacks
  (tags: medicine heart cortisol stress)
• My dog has unilateral neglect! «
  (tags: dogs brain stroke)
• Woman Wins Libel Suit By Suing Wrong Website
  (tags: law usa EpicFail)
• Another drilling platform has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico
  (tags: oilrig louisiana oil usa EpicFail)
• Apple censors Lady Gaga's pro-gay tweets
  (tags: censorship apple gay EpicFail)
• Foreign nurses to be taught British euphemisms so they can understand patients
  (tags: language uk healthcare)
• How much Blair hated the left and Labour party
  (tags: labour tonyblair politics uk)
• Users still puzzled by broadband ads/speeds
  (tags: broadband technology uk)

Comments

[simont]

The first link has a curious word in it. About two thirds of the way down the actual article (not counting the comments), "When I was there, they had a little bottle of htmlirin pills to go round 200 patients in pain". My guess is that some more sensible word has been converted into this bizarre coinage by poorly controlled search and replace, but working out the details (or indeed what the word should have been) is beyond me!

eta: oh, no, actually, given another minute's thought it becomes obvious. The word was aspirin, so the substitution was of "html" for "asp" – somebody must have tried to convert the suffixes on all the internal hyperlinks and not thought to check that the substitution didn't affect any text outside an href.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Nice find.

[simont]

A little more googling suggests that it's not a unique error; pride of place goes to the top hit which has managed, at least as far as Google can see, to transfer the mis-replaced word into an actual page name :-)

Further searching reveals that it's not unique to that particular word, either; I found hits for exhtmlerated and Rhtmlutin, and a friend of mine turned up tehtmloon and rhtmlberry.