Pet peeve of the day

People who don't know the difference between 'break' and 'brake'.  It seems to be becoming more and more widespread.

On this subject, damn Merriam-Webster to the blackest pits of hell:  They're compounding the problem by returning the same page for both queries, which is just going to help convince people that they're the same fucking word.  And I don't have a subscription to the OED....

(Does anyone know a non-subscription online English dictionary that does NOT simply forward to dictionary.reference.com?)

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UPDATE (thanks janetmiles for pointing me at OneLook):  The Cambridge Dictionary of American English, for one, has separate and distinct listings for brake and break, and is quite clear on the understanding that the latter is NOT a device for stopping a vehicle.

shutterbug lust sets in

I'm so tired of us being broke.  If I just had $300 of disposable cash right now, I could pick up a Canon Powershot Pro90 IS on eBay (with wide-angle and macro lenses and a battery charger, even) to replace my Olympus D-500L, which -- while The Digital Camera To Buy at the time I bought it, six or seven years ago -- is now showing its age badly.  (Not to mention that I hit the limits of what I could do with it probably three or four years ago and have been wishing for a more capable camera ever since.)

Mmmmmm, 10:1 optical zoom with electronic image-stabilization.....

(Yeah, you heard that right.  10:1.  Optical.  Sure, there's 4:1 digital zoom on top of that, but digital zoom is just a fancy phrase that means "throwing away data".)

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UPDATE:  It must be declared that verily, darthgeek doth rock.  Further, deponent saith not, except for a big "Thank you."