Originally, I thought this was an error:

I was wearing the new Nike+ Sportband, which has proved itself to be a great tool when running with friends because I can track my mileage without lugging my Nano around.

I have always learned the principal parts of 'prove' to be: prove, proved, proven. This would mean that the above sentence would need to say 'has proven.' However, a quick search on dictionary.com shows both forms as correct.

Life is all about learning.

Source: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/08/26/my-nike-sportband-fe.html

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prove

That's some mighty tasty pain!

In another Boing Boing post, this one about a cool off-road recumbent bicycle, we see again how a simple typo can change a sentence. Here, the author quotes an employee at Beserker Cycle Design, who says:

It was designed by our CEO Adam Stephens after a nasty meeting between his carbon fiber Kestrel and a 12-food drop left him with some back injuries.

Aside from the fact that this injury has nothing to do with food, the Boing Boing crew gives no source for their quote! I couldn't find anywhere to look up if this was a mistake on the part of Boing Boing or the BCD employee. How's that for journalism?

Source: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/28/berserker-cycles-off.html

Hide and Seek?

It's easy to make a typo or skip a letter when writing out a quick blog post. Not so simple, I imagine, would be skipping an entire word. This seems to be the case in the following, from a Boing Boing Gadgets post about using Nike+ to help train when running.

What irked me about the idea of running was that I had nothing to measure my progress against. "It feels good" and "it improves heart health" were too amorphous and unquantifiable for me. I needed something that would keep count the way we keep score in basketball or volleyball, the I know I just climbed a 5-10b at the climbing gym or rocked a double black diamond skiing.

What I want to focus on is there in the last sentence. It just feels incomplete. My best guess, she was trying to describe the feeling of accomplishment and left out the "feeling" part at the end. Another complaint: since this is being used as a descriptor, a sort of compound adjective, it should be hyphenated - "the I-know-I-just-did-that-cool-stuff feeling." Perhaps it's just my personal opinion, but I think it serves a purpose here.

Source: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/28/how-nike-plus-is-hel.html

Verbs aren't nouns!!

In some languages (like my specialty, German) verbs can be used as nouns with no perceptible change in spelling. Not so in English. Witness the following:

That tube in front looks a lot like something that is controlled by breathe.

'Breath' is of course the noun form, while 'breathe' is the verb. Also acceptable would have been the gerund, the verb-as-noun version 'breathing.'

Source: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/13/book-time-a-physical.html

Why so tense?

Verb tenses shouldn't be difficult (at least not in English).

Did you know that Engadget has a moratorium against cover Monster Cable products in response to all these tactics?

Source: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/09/monster-cable-out-of.html