NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES SHIT: Folks claim we do that every day, but a newspaper in San Diego actually did it. Because of an editing mistake, the word "shit" appeared in some issues of the "San Diego Union-Tribune" recently. Here's how:

The memo went on to say that during the proofing process, the word "pooh-butt" had been marked "stet," a proofers' term indicating it should remain in the copy. But a layout designer working on a Macintosh computer misunderstood. "A macker read [the] word as 'shit,' and corrected the Mac proof accordingly."

Whoops! (Link vis Romenesko.)