Kerry Buckley

What’s the simplest thing that could possibly go wrong?

BVB: Big Visible Belly graph
6 November 2007

Parochial Ethnicity Option

This from the profile page on Orkut (which is, of course, an international site):

Orkut ethnicity options

Someone really ought to tell them that African American isn’t a globally-applicable synonym for Black.

6 November 2007

An Apostrophe is not an Open Quote

Just spotted this dreadful logo for Le Web 3:

Le Web Logo

I know this often happens in body text when an over-enthusiastic ’smart quotes’ feature in a word processor mistakes the apostrophe for an opening quotation mark, but someone really should have noticed it in a logo.

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