You Got to have Friends...

If you're a regular reader here, you already know about my nephew Gabe and his musical history.  If not, I won't give you a re-cap except to call your attention to his current activities--which center around the trio above, who are making their mark on the scene performing live and in the studio--with the latter represented by the above self-produced 6 track release.  And like all young performers with their eyes on the prize, they've got a web presence stocked with everything you want and need to join the revels.  Go forth and enjoy...they make artful and soulfully sweet sounds.  http://www.friendsoflolamusic.com

Correct me if I'm right...
...in 1996 AOL's rather simple-minded dirty-word filter prevented residents of several English towns and counties — among them Scunthorpe, Penistone, Lightwater and Middlesex — from creating accounts with AOL because it matched strings within the town names to "banned" words.  Thus, all such filtering fiascos have come to be known as Scunthorpe Problems.  It's also known as the "clbuttic" mistake. (more on that anon) 

And the digital theatre of the absurd continues as recently, a blogger had received a Nook and decided to purchase and read Tolstoy’s War and Peace ...

"As I was reading, I came across this sentence: “It was as if a light had been Nook'd in a carved and painted lantern….” Thinking this was simply a glitch in the software, I ignored the intrusive word and continued reading. Some pages later I encountered the rogue word again. With my third encounter I decided to retrieve my hard cover book and find the original (well, the translated) text.  For the sentence above I discovered this genuine translation: “It was as if a light had been kindled in a carved and painted lantern….”

During the conversion of the book to the Nook format, the publisher ran a search and replace for "Kindle"  and changed every one of them to the word or form of the word  Nook in the book.

Other examples From Wikipedia:

In June 2008, a news site run by the American Family Association censored an Associated Press article on sprinter Tyson Gay, replacing instances of “gay” with homosexual, thus rendering his name as “Tyson Homosexual”.

The word “ass” may be replaced by “butt”, resulting in “clbuttic” for “classic” and “buttbuttinate” for “assassinate”.

In December 2011, it was reported that software used by Virgin Media had filtered words including “Arsenal” (for “arse”), and “Canal” (for “anal”)

Courtesy of Julia Turner 

Cupertino Effect

Also known as "auto-correct errors", a Cupertino error occurs when your computer thinks it knows what you're trying to say better than you do. The name comes from an early spell checker program, which knew the word Cupertino - the Californian city where Apple has its headquarters - but not the word "cooperation". All the cooperations in a document might thus be automatically "corrected" into Cupertinos.