Righting Wrong Writing

Once, when asked what my pet peeve was, I responded, "Typos on billboards and signs." If typos are annoying in small print, obviously, increasing the point size and displaying them for the world to see only exacerbates the pain.

Well, today I discovered that not only do others feel my pain, there is a vigilante group dedicated to righting the offenses. The Typo Eradication Advancement League (TEAL), founded by fedora-donning Jeff Deck sometime between 2007 and 2008 (I could not find the exact date) exists to seek out these glaring errors and correct them.

Last year, Deck traveled across the country, conducting the 2008 Typo Hunt Across America.

Usually, TEAL attempts to gain permission to correct signage, but they have had at least one run-in with the law over editing a historic marker in a national park.

Reader's Digest ran a feature on TEAL in this month's issue.

This Cake Is as Old as Helvetica!

With a name like German Chocolate Cake, you would think this dessert was cooked up in some Bavarian kitchen, but the recipe was first published in a Texas newspaper in 1958.

The dessert is named after the man who invented this particular kind of sweet chocolate for Baker's Chocolate: Sam German.

We no longer know the name of the original recipe writer.

For more on this topic and recipes, read "German chocolate: It's more than just a cake" in the Baltimore Sun.

an apple walks into a bar

Have you seen these fruit bars from Trader Joe's? This has got to be my all-time favorite product name for a fruit bar. Not only is the pun wonderful, and the description indicative of whole fruit goodness, but it leaves me wanting more. What happens next? Whoever wrote this is my hero!

Special thanks to Brian for bringing a Trader Joe's apple fruit bar to lunch at work.

PANTONE color of the year

Farewell chili pepper red; hello blue iris. Pantone announced its favorite color for 2008. Read more from in The New York Times article.

The End!

We finally made it through the end of semester!

Here is a celebratory video (yes, Shayla, it is on Youtube): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D09DCZryG2U

Office Prank #4

I thought I should give my iMovie a place on my blog. Now, everyone can see it.

now that is an ad for jeans!

Check out this billboard for jeans. In case you can't see it, the text reads: At this moment, your bum is completely exposed. If it were in a sexy pair of jeans, it would attract attention all the time!

Nice! Too bad the idea doesn't work in brochure form.