08 April 2010

Deepak Chopra: multiple murderer?

Deepak Chopra, quack antiscience doctor, claims to have caused the recent Baja earthquake by meditating on destruction.

I think that he should be charged with witchcraft and murder, so he's forced to admit in court that he does not really have magical powers.

Thanks to Dr. Steven Novella for pointing out this story.

02 April 2010

Why I bought this domain

So why am I nitpicking.com? Because I can't help noticing stupid mistakes when I drive past them--or am stuck in traffic behind them, like this one:


I especially like the fact that they can't spell "Granite", combined with the inability to make the adjective "all" match the number of the noun "kind". Note that "Bathrooms & Kitchens Remodeling" is also wrong.

Nearly up to this standard is a banner seen on an auto-repair shop:

In a shorter message, they only had room for two mistakes, but I also feel they were hurt by having only spelling errors, with no grammar problems.

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