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Subject:Re: Trying again re Cupertino Effect From:Kathleen MacDowell <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com> To:Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> Date:Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:10:11 -0500
Nancy, your post was even more hilarious than the link to the article, but a
comment raised a serious issue for other users of Microsoft software, and
possibly medical risks (altho that might be a stretch). But it's definitely
something that people should watch for when using any type of database.
In case you and others aren't aware, I've attached the link to the article.
Briefly, some gene workers realized that artifacts of Excel cause gene names
to be changed when they're put in a spread sheet. They've come up with
fixes.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:
>
> I have no idea why my first email arrived with all content stripped out. I
> hope this gets through.
>
> Just found this -- I'd ripped it out of the newspaper a while back. (Yes, I
> am a doddering old soul who still rips things out of physical newspapers.)
>
> Evidently, Word 97's spellchecker for British English catches "cooperation"
> as an error, but instead of suggesting "co-operation" as the correction, it
> suggests "Cupertino."
>
> "As a result of the quirk, "Cupertino" started to make all sorts of
> unwarranted appearances. A 1999 paper from NATO referred to the
> "Organization for Security and Cupertino in Europe." An EU publication from
> 2003 spoke hopefully of the "scope for Cupertino" on a certain project."
>
> I particularly like another correction: "a Reuters story which changed the
> name of the Muttahida Quami movement of Pakistan into the Muttonhead Quail
> movement."
>
> Maybe this is old hat to everyone but me, but it gave me a giggle.
>
>
>http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2008/12/the_cupertino_e.html
>
>
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