Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Perils of automation


By Jacqueline Damian

I’m indebted to my former boss, Greg Lupion, for finding this one:

It seems a Christian news site outsmarted itself by programming its software to automatically change the word “gay” in any copy to “homosexual.” Thus, as reported by a Washington Post blogger, Olympic hopeful Tyson Gay became Tyson Homosexual on the site. Oops.

“I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” by Marvin Who?

2 comments:

Brian Santo said...

That would be "Marvin Happy Person"

Greeley's Ghost said...

Marvin Feliz, if en espanol.

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