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From everyone's favorite Hindu newspaper, the, er, Hindu: The fourth paragraph in a report “Viagra potentially to help depressed women as well” (“Newscape” page, July 23, 2008) was “The women were told to take a pill one to two hours for eight weeks …”, leading to queries. It was an editing error. The sentence should have been “The women were told to take a pill one to two hours before sex for eight weeks ….”

Also of note: the Standard-Examiner out of Utah is looking for page designers "with a solid knowledge of grammer [sic]" -- knowledge of InDesign/Photoshop and a college degree are all "helpful, but also not required." This may be the last job open in the field of print journalism.

And the current front-runner for Typo of the Year: The Valley News either misspells its own name, or is appealing to its sizable Serpentine-American readership. Hrm. Am considering the viability of a web-script that replaces letters with multiple copies of the same letter. Go for that Cobra Commander/Kobra effect.

Use the biotics, Luke

So I've been playing Knights of the Old Republic III Mass Effect and loving it. The voice talents are pretty distinct: the dude who voiced Carth Onasi returns, and there's a very distinct group of guest stars: Keith David, Marina Sirtis and Seth Green, among others. The action is interesting if occasionally vexing, the digital faces are on the happy side of the uncanny valley, the dialogue scenes are extremely cinematic, the aliens run from adequate to very cool, and the video scene of the Normandy arriving at the Citadel is just fantastic. It could use a bit more polish in the interface and needs a more consistent fast-travel system, but if you were a fan of KOTOR in any of its incarnations (even the bloody mess that KOTOR2 became), you really should check it out. Search/replace "Jedi" with "Spectre," "Force" with "biotics," "Skywalker" with "Shepard" and you're pretty much set.

Interestingly, my old computer wouldn't even run Mass Effect; Diana runs it with max settings with nary a stutter. (And Oblivion looks gorgeous.) I'm gonna have to try Crysis on it.

You know who you are....

Ganking link and summary from gynocide because she did a good job in encapsulating the horror: Bridezillas are now demanding that their bridesmaids get Botox, boob jobs, laser treatments, tans.