The spinach myth

Popeye's nutritional preferences the consequence of a transcription error. (Via GeekPress.)

Closing tabs

Ugh, suffering from utter exhaustion today, hoping tomorrow is not like this too...

One year I really will go to the Harbin Ice Festival.

And at the other end of the scale, these are beautiful and the sort of thing I might make were I a visual artist.

The perfect writer's machine?

Crowdsourcing transcription.

"Trey-eight revolve 'em"

An absolutely fascinating piece by Paul Devlin at Slate on transcription errors in a new anthology of rap. It could usefully be read by people editing Shakespeare plays...

Recondite speech

Robert Fortner has a fascinating and illuminating piece on the limits of speech recognition software. (Courtesy of Marginal Revolution.)