:rolleyes::
:mad:
Good lord, that’s damned funny.
C&P from article (bolding mine):
Researchers compiled 500 pages of errors, ranging from maps depicting the equator passing through the southern United States to a photo of singer Linda Ronstadt labeled as a silicon crystal.
What the hell is that all about?
LOL
Rose
Yep, we’re doomed. It’s been real, folks! 
Phew. Good thing.
Hey, at least the text books are politically correct and culturally diversified.
So were doomed eh? Anywone for tortilla chips?
My father does freelance Editing of Science texts (biology, earth sciences and natural history oriented)… basicly the people that are hired to do the editing hire out several freelance people (like my father) who do the editing for them and then the editor compiles all the information. When the text is finally published they usually send him a copy of it. He will then check to see if they changed everything… many times they do not… occasionally its something fairly major.
That irritates and frustrates him to no end.
The world was doomed long before any of us was born, and will remain doomed long after we are all dust.
Such is the human condition.
You just have to ruin my day, don’t you?
My little brother was a Photo Researcher for Prentice Hall in NYC a little while back, specifically with science textbooks for high schools. This could make for humorous family get-togethers if it was under his watch! Luckily he left and worked for a dotcom who’s doors are shut. They currently pay him to stay home. I GOTTA check this one out. Perhaps my parents only had enough viable DNA for the first four kids…
(Ooops, now I can’t send him this link. Sorry Bagg!)
It’s not so much that they make mistakes … believe me, if you put out a large publication, there’s going to be some mistakes. Even the best editor won’t catch every little thing.
The main problem is that it doesn’t seem to concern the people who need to improve the system so that fewer obvious mistakes are made. I hope somewhere somebody’s doing something about this, because nothing’s more frustrating and disappointing to a student than when the people charged with teaching him are f-ing clueless!
There. I got it out. I’m better now.
Things are getting worse with SpellCheck, folks don’t even question it.
A friend of mine had a thousand copies of a technical manual he’d worked on get recalled because “Master brake” got changed into “Masturbate” by the SpellCheck and had slipped past the editor.
Richard Feynman (a famous Nobel prize winning physisist with a sense of humor) was on a committee in California to review textbooks, according to one of his autobiographies. IIRC he showed up for the meeting after reviewing the math and science texts with a huge list of factual errors, and was basically met with high levels of hostility from people with PC complaints. They were not at all interested in fixing factual content, but just wanted to look at PC stuff. He said it was a lost cause and didn’t do it again. The science texts I have seen are amazingly bad.
The world has been doomed since the invention of the crossbow made the knights vulnerable to attack by any old peasant. Once the weapon/armor balance is broken all hell breaks loose, and things like democracies happen. This will just increase ignorance and confusion, and it ain’t no big deal.
That explains why the computer I built out of Linda Ronstadt doesn’t work right.
“You have to switch to the masturbate.”
“In case the masturbate fails, pull hard on the emergency brake”
“Remember to engage the masturbate slowly, and not pump. This vcan be hazardous, especially when slippery”
This is the most hilarious thing I’ve read all month.
Indeed, I don’t think I’ll ever forget this one.