It's well known among authors, it's incredibly dangerous to look in
your book once it's published—you're sure to find some
embarassing error as soon as you open it. (Don't get me started about some of the
errors in SSL and TLS).
In that vein, I recently picked up Matthew Yglesias's, Heads
in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign
Policy Screws Up the Democrats. Yglesias is famous for
writing quickly and having numerous typos, homonym mixups, etc.
in his posts. Sure enough, I hadn't gotten past page xviii
when I discovered he had misspelled the name of his
roommate, Kriston Capps,
except Yglesias spells it "Krison." It's reasonably interesting otherwise,
though.

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