Your Tax Dollars at Work

posted by chip on Tuesday, the tenth of June 2008, at a quarter past six in the evening
I was watching hulu, and the end-of-episode ad caught my eye. See if you can find the mistake. (Hint: it has nothing to do with the obvious Orwellian implications of the ad)

And the Air Force is the intelligent branch of the military.

UPDATE: Firefox Ad-Block had blocked the ad picture above even though it's on my server (presumably because it ends in ad.jpg). I've fixed it.

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Disabling the back button

posted by dougfort on Tuesday, the tenth of June 2008, at half past six in the morning
A powerful tool in information warfare.

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posted by Marcin on Tuesday, the tenth of June 2008, at a quarter till seven in the evening
I don't get it...

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posted by chip on Wednesday, the eleventh of June 2008, at a quarter past three in the afternoon
The error is, of course, the confusion between "sight" and "site." I like this one because it really shows the failure of spelling and grammar checkers. "Site" is spelled correctly and is grammatically valid in the sentence, but is quite obviously not what they meant in conjunction with an unmanned surveillance craft.

Now if they had a picture of Guantanamo Bay, it would make perfect sense. :P

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Is that right?

posted by wang on Wednesday, the eleventh of June 2008, at a quarter past four in the afternoon
Couldn't one make the argument that site is correct based on the words in the lower right corner? Where it say "air space cyberspace". If they were referring to cyberspace, then site would be correct. And a play on words as well.

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posted by chip on Thursday, the twelfth of June 2008, at a quarter past two in the morning
Sure one could. But given that the picture has nothing to do with cyberspace, that "let ___ out of your sight" is a commonly used phrase, and that the serious tone of the ad doesn't lend itself to a play on words, I believe anyone making such a contrarian argument would merely be full of hot air. :P

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