lying for a living

Typographical error of the year, from a Houston Chronicle article about Anna Nicole Smith:

“When Redding, a longtime scout for Playboy, discovered Smith, the model could barely right a sentence…”

Regret the Error has many, many more corrections and typos to giggle over. They include this, from The New Scientist:

Several readers complain that the dancing cow illustrating Feedback, 20 January, appears to have six teats. It was of course drawn as seen by an intoxicated fellow dancer.

And this mistake, pointed out by the Guardian:

A cable television company has apologised to customers after accidentally broadcasting a pornography channel instead of the scheduled BBC programmes.
Smallworld viewers in Scotland… were waiting for the Ten O’Clock News but were shocked to see sexually explicit images on their screens, while BBC2 viewers were confronted with X-rated footage instead of Jeremy Paxman and Newsnight.

Oh, I can’t stop. Here’s this, from the Monterey County Herald:

Monterey X-rated movie director Inkyo Volt Hwang’s nickname was Wanker Wang. An article on page A1 Saturday misspelled the nickname.