Headlines are supposed to give an idea of what the story is about, and also entice you to read more. The point originally was to sell more newspapers, or magazines or whatever. In the world of “online journalism” headlines are quite often the only thing that people wind up reading, so “online journalists” have to make their headlines even more enticing, since in order to read more of the story, the reader has to actually click on the headline, which is a lot of work.

I am going somewhere with this, just don’t know if you want to come along :)

Over the past few days, I’ve read some headlines that say one thing, but I read them as something else. “Escaped Emu mistaken for Naked Man” was one example. I read emu to be a short form of emulator, and was wondering how one would escape. Today, I was treated with “MS May Be Sexually Transmitted” - where I read MS as being Microsoft. Especially odd, since I read yesterday that Melinda Gates (Bill’s wife) had a baby girl. I like the headline I saw associated with that too - “Dude you’re gettin’ Adelle” because that’s the baby’s middle name.

That reminds me - I have to update the template for this site so that the headline shows up in the titlebar as well.

Oh yeah, and I think I’m going to try and post a picture or two today - haven’t done it yet, but check out my pictures page.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Miss Hoover, I glued my head to my shoulder.” - Ralph