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Dear Microsoft: Did you know your word-processing program has a spell check?

The above image is a screencap from the help files in Excel 2007. If the “Waht” isn’t awful enough, just try to decipher that second sentence. Yes, this is so helpful. Perhaps a proofreader would have been a good idea?

Yes, I am a line tamer

The Editor’s Association of Canada has opened a cafepress store featuring some cheeky-cute editor gear. The taglines on the items include:

Line Tamer
You write it. We right it.
Message Therapist

… and my favourite: May I heighten your textual pleasure?
Check them out at: http://www.cafepress.com/eac_acr

Why I love the CBC

Where else will you find a reference to a 19th century British poem in the sports section?
This very much pleases my writer’s brain.