links for 2009-04-08

Yeah, news*papers* are an anachronism.

"We distributed the last of 74,000 papers at 2:30 p.m. today and as of 3 p.m., so far as we can tell, not a single one remains in a DTH rack. Our normal daily circulation is 20,000. No sooner than we put 300 or 400 in a rack they’d be gone. There was no leveling off in demand that we could discern, reports of people taking large stacks at a time were rampant and unremitting, stories of them being sold on Franklin Street were pouring in, and the first e-bay offer had sprung up at 7:30 a.m." – Daily Tar Heel celebrates too.

"It started when a student misspelled the word "apostle" when writing the photo caption. When the caption was put through the editing software's spell checker, it was flagged, and the editor accidentally clicked the first word that came up on the correct list: "apostate." The mistake made it past two proofreaders before being sent off to the printing press."