No jokes about the family tartan

[sigma7]

The American Family Association runs a site called OneNewsNow. I suppose it's your run-o-the-mill news aggregator site with one heretofore unremarkable quirk: an automated script that, for style purposes I guess, replaces the word "gay" with "homosexual." Which I don't necessarily see as an unreasonable decision. From a technical standpoint, though, it's not a good idea for such a context-insensitive filter -- particularly if you're world-record-breaking sprinter Tyson Gay. Then things get a little weird.

Bonus: From the story Wolves trade Mayo to Memphis for Love (which is pretty awesome in and of itself): "Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt."

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Heh. Reminds me of a library filter I once encountered; it took me a moment to realize why a story I read referenced the great director Alfred Hitch.

[rainfletcher.livejournal.com]

Someone send that headline to Leno, stat.

Text filters - Good proofreading = Ensuing hilarity

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's not right -- it's one of those sentences that leaves you in antici

[lacrimaeveneris.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. That's rather awesome. I'm going to go root for Tyson Homosexual now.

[aardy.livejournal.com]

Say it! Say it!

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I was darkly amused when the NFL's online jersey-ordering system to customize your own jersey (picking your team, name, number) had a few verboten names -- you couldn't get a "Ron Mexico" jersey, and you couldn't use certain words. "Gay" ended up being one of those words. Which became a very interesting issue when one of the members of the Super-Bowl-winning Patriots was Randall Gay.

As it turned out, there were 1159 blocked words, and I just realized I don't have a list of them, so I'm copy-pasting them into a text file for future use, possibly in composing automatic resume generators....

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

-pation.

Today's been a strange, strange day.

[lacrimaeveneris.livejournal.com]

Wow. WOW.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yeah, someone got paid to come up with that list. Or several someones. ("Hey guys! 'Kumquat,' yes or no?" No, as it turns out.) Funny, "INSEST" is on the list; "INCEST" is not. "SHAWTYPIMP" is, "SHAWTY" is not. Consistency, people!

Interestingly that list would have to be modified for use with the NHL to accommodate my favorite Czech hockey star, Miroslav Satan, who seems to have been given the (usually-arbitrary) database number of 666 by ESPN, SI and Yahoo Sports.

I love life when it's this unrepentantly weird.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Was just reading a story about how North Carolina is offering replacement license plates to anyone who got a (randomly issued when the sequence came up) WTF-#### plate. The real kickers were a WTF- plate was being used as an example in various pictures and literature and that no one realized this was an acronym until "kids" pointed it out to older relatives who freaked out.

[ravenskye8.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

[patchsassy.livejournal.com]

"When auto-replace is not your friend..."

Oh lord. Of course, that guy is from Lexington, so I'm so bringing this into work tomorrow so we can all point and laugh.

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

Be shocking to see the Flintstones' theme through the filter ... suddenly Barney, Betty, Wilma and Fred aren't just neighbors, they're having a homosexual old time.