Well, here's a first one for Slate.

corrections

Slate's mistakes.

Yes, Slate has created a page to announce their boo-boos (just like Salon does). Usually, they do a fine job of stating their corrections on the articles themselves, but I guess they decided it was time to have a clearing house for them. Among the corrected articles, there's one about the Enter the Matrix game...

...Historically, movie video games suck, a trend that dates back to the Atari age. Chris Charla, who designed the game Disney's Tarzan, said at a recent conference that "ET for the 2600 … really works hard to earn its reputation as one of the worst games ever made." [Correction, May 29, 2003: Charla did not design Disney's Tarzan.] Charla went on to say that "in the years after ET almost destroyed the game industry," licensed games "became synonymous with … slapped-together mediocrity." From that perspective, Enter the Matrix is right up there at the top end of the curve...

...and one about Stephen Glass's "novel."

In a way we are lucky Steve wrote this book as fiction. With a memoir, he might have strived for a coherent mea culpa. Here we have his imagination unfettered, his true fantasy of how things might have been. "An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned," wrote V.S. Naipaul in an essay about the fictional Michael X. [Correction, May 22, 2003: Michael X is not a fictional character.] "But fiction never lies; it reveals the writer totally."

When I first came across the "Corrections" entry on Slate's front page, I wondered whether they were going to retract one of their articles, just as it happened during their "monkeyfishing" fiasco, what with the current season of liars.

After all, it seems easy to pull a prank on the Kinsley posse... [Hey, maybe that's what "monkeyfishing" means! - id]