Rotundus.com

I know that in my thesis proposal a few interesting typos have been caught, and there was one rather embarassing paragraph with a couple of amusing typos. In one sentence, "cooling" was accidentally spelled "cooking" - do I have food on the brain? Then in the following sentence "job scheduling" became "john scheduling" which meant receiving a comment about pimps from one reviewer.

In the news recently as far as typos go, one cookbook recently attracted attention over a typo - "salt and freshly ground black pepper" was in there as "salt and freshly ground black people" - causing the book to be scrapped and reprinted.

Then there's relatively famous typo back in 1631 wherein a Bible printer missed the word "not" in one of the ten commandments. (Oops!)

Are we really going to use that new widget on the top of our Christmas list as often as we think we are?

After months of interviewing "several hundred" students, they came up with an answer. No way. Their study, published in the journal Social Influence, found that nearly two thirds of the time people overestimate how much they will use that must-have gizmo. They don't use it half as much as they thought they would, and a perfect stranger could have told them that, the study contends.

Source: ABC News: Gotta Have the Latest Gadget?

Basically the study compared individual's estimates of how much they'd use something with estimates provided by a group of strangers, and the strangers' guesses were more accurate.

Kind of amusing, yet a bit too anti-Walmart / anti-globalistic. (It also ignores that Walmart is getting into buying local, at least when it comes to food)