Writers, learn to write

I have decided that my new ultimate pet peeve in writing is people using “formally” when they mean “formerly.” It takes the place of the equally annoying use of “of” in place of “have” (as in, “should of”).

Both of these errors seem to indicate a purely aural (as opposed to vocabulary/grammatical) way of understanding language. Which is OK for an average person; I’m not trying to be an obnoxious pedant. I don’t care so much when I see these errors in informal writing, but when you’re paid to write for a reputable (?) publication, you should know better.

Then again, this issue maybe only happens online, where these supposedly reputable publications a) don’t pay their writers enough to spend time polishing their work before submitting it, and b) don’t bother running these posts past editors before publishing.

“Untooned”

Once again, Digg proves to be a source not only of random information of the moment, but some of the most unexpected, bizarre creations I’ve ever encountered.

In this case, it’s work from pixeloo, wherein cartoon/video game characters are rendered in quasi-realistic detail. Brace yourself…