August 09, 2005

"OH, LIVERMORE, THE TOWN THAT MISSPELLS STUFF." For $6,000, an artist, already paid $40,000, returns to correct the 11 misspellings -- like "Eistein” for "Einstein" -- in the "educational" mural she made for the Livermore public library.

UPDATE: A reader emails that Livermore is also the town that lost its own time capsule. There's a film documentary about it.

ANOTHER UPDATE: In Livermore's defense, though it may not have the brightest bulbs, it does have the world's longest burning light bulb.