两件有点好笑的事

1.
Bill Kennedy, Chuck Musciano的HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition一书中多次提到：

The dir attribute tells the browser in which direction to display the list contentsfrom left to right (dir=ltr), like English and French, or from right to left (dir=rtl), as with Hebrew and Chinese.

幸亏html没有提供“从纸外往纸里写”的选项啊。

2.
Jeff Prosise在Programming Microsoft .NET里写道：

TerraServer is one of the world’s largest online databases. Inside it are photographs and maps of much of Earth’s surface

受此话蛊惑，我兴冲冲的跑去TerraServer一看，差点晕倒－基本上只有美国的照片。难道Jeff兄觉得US = “much of Earth”？咱不能叫“中国”了！这称号得让出去了！