I love errors in newspapers. Not my own, obviously — not that I ever make any, in case my editor reads this  — but ones that appear in other newspapers.  But the error has to be spectacular. It has to be one of those “how the hell did this make it into print?” cock-ups that have to leave even newspaper production people like myself baffled at to what exactly went wrong in a process that involves multiple people — writers, editors, copy-editors, designers, proofreaders* — that allowed a screaming error to make it all the way into print. Typos don’t always count. This error by the BBC, for example, is mortifying but not exactly inexplicable: It’s also easily corrected and unless someone has the foresight to screengrab it and stick it online, it’s possible to get away with only a few people seeing it. And by “a few” I mean “probably several thousand”.  The best typos are those that result in the entire sense of the story being changed, which leads m...

So I think (with the emphasis on “think,” even though it hurt) that I've decided on the look for the new iteration of PlanetMut. The red wall, v1. Note the font that says “I have no idea what to do, that looks OK, I'll go with it.” Now I’m sure some of you are looking at the site going “Jesus wept, what is this shit?” as you don a pair of sunglasses to cut down on the glare from the white background and bright colours. And they are bright, aren’t they? Same wall with the font from The Cure’s Wish album . I originally really had no idea what look I wanted for the site. I’ve still got the old PlanetMut header and button images and gave them a look over when I was creating the new version, but I decided I wanted to do something new. Oh look! Red! I think this was the third version of the site. Add some stars, change the font and voila! — a “redesign” is born. And I was a bit sick of red, which is obviously why I stuck a photo of a red brick wall at th...