links for 2007-10-11

Phil Windley: Living with the Redbilled Oxpecker

“The most important lesson to learn about the press is that they always get it wrong…. The errors are not necessarily made maliciously; the press simply doesn’t usually spend enough time or have the right background to fully understand a story. This i

(tags: media journalism reporting standards)
StupidFilter

(via Ben Hammersley):Open-source filter software to detect rampant stupidity in written English, specifically in blogs, wikis and the like. Genius.

(tags: stupidity language filter blogging plugin)