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...ever encountered ads for "fresh" ground beef or "pizza" by the slice, you know all too well the scourge of inappropriate quotation marks. And no one mocks misplaced punctuation better than the "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks. (See the 25 best blogs...
...blog was devised by Bethany Keeley, a 26-year-old graduate student in communications at the University of Georgia who describes herself as a "geeky child" who always had an interest in writing and language. She started the blog in 2005 as an occasional record of the bad grammar she encountered in day-to-day life, but the blog tapped a nerve. After the Associated Press discovered the site in 2007, Keeley recalls, she began receiving hundreds of submissions from around the world every day. Some particularly egregious examples: questionable "freshness," confused signage and ... this...
...never thought this would be my claim to fame - these weird, dumb things," she says. In the end, it may not be. Though Keeley says the blog generates some extra income each month, the real prize is a book deal she's hoping to sign this fall. The recently engaged Keeley says she's hoping the money will help finance her wedding...
...related to your job. That sounds miserable. It's very miserable. There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing. (Read TIME's Curious Capitalist blog...
...first to admit his company could easily have wound up on FAIL Blog. For the uninitiated, that's his wildly popular website to which users submit photos and videos documenting such colossally stupid moves as writing a billboard partly in Braille and using a trash can as a bike helmet. Like the rest of the 20-odd websites Huh owns, FAIL Blog was added to his empire for no more specific reason, he says, than "Dude, I think it's funny." (See the 25 best blogs...