Although what else are you going to find here, honestly? For the movie lover & designer, a hangman-esque game identifying objects from famous movies based on a simplified illustration: Famous Objects from Classic Movies. Oh yeah, the url is hard to remember, too. (Hint: it’s not.) (via Coudal Blended Feed). Wolverine-as-Velociraptor/Deinonychus, Thor as Anklyosaurus, etc. […]
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An understandable mistake
A reply to a question in Notes & Queries yesterday recommended purchasing lion and tiger urine from Chester Zoo to stop neighbourhood cats from urinating in a vegetable patch (G2, page 17). Chester Zoo would like to forestall requests for its big cats’ urine: it asks us to make clear that it does not in […]
Posted by Ben on November 6, 2009
https://www.swordbilled.com/an-understandable-mistake/
For the record
We accidentally referred to a “stellar sea lion” (29 November, p 6). The featured mammal is a Steller’s sea lion. All in good time, all in good time. (via Regret The Error)
Posted by Ben on March 30, 2009
https://www.swordbilled.com/for-the-record/
Round and round they go.
Newspaper article about Wikipedia errors turns out to have its own factual errors… and the author of the piece then posts an explanation… on Wikipedia. (via Regret the Error)
Posted by Ben on March 13, 2009
https://www.swordbilled.com/round-and-round-they-go/