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Don't forget the original
The Usenet Olympics brought us such events as the 400-Post Relay and the "Asbestos Man" Triathlon. If you remember the "atheletes, you'll enjoy it.
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Re:Yes.
To grossly misapply your car analogy, there is an old anecdote about a car designed by Ken Thompson. There were no instruments on the dashboard at all, except for a single question mark. If the driver made a mistake, the ? would light up. "The experienced driver," said Ken, "will usually know what's wrong."
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Why rubber stamp approval is bad.
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I looked at the modification times on the imagesAnd they show, very roughly, the order as well. There are inconsistencies, but the modification time order is too correlated with the kick-off order not to mean something.
It shows the same winner as the "X" error.
The final four are him, Rudy, Jenna and Richard.
Full details at this page
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Re:But.. but...It's a really bad idea to have huge 404 pages. You could've had the same result (or better) if you just had a nice blank page with that message. It's even worse to redirect the 404 to another page, because I often try to find what I was looking for by going up the tree, and editing the URL becomes painful when I have to retype or repaste it every time because the site redirected me.
Now that I got that off my chest, here are a few more amusing, yet not annoying, 404 pages:
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Re:Not just Linux eitherLinux has one supreme advantage over all BSD variants:
Tux won't get you in trouble in Texas!
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Interesting (semi-related) trivia
The famous-on-USENET and now hard to find "annotated CD-ROM of A Fire Upon the Deep " was actually an anthology of all the 1993 Hugo nominees, put together by Brad Templeton (then of ClariNet, and now Chairman of the Board for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Since China Mountain Zhang was also a Hugo nominee that year, it was made available, in its entirety, along with a short QuickTime movie of Maureen McHugh giving pronunciation tips for those of us not fortunate enough to speak any Chinese dialect, and her reading of the beginning of the novel.
(That CD-ROM is a great toy for SF-loving geeks. No, you can't have mine, it's not for sale.)
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This is an old, old issue... (link)See http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/j okes/93q2/compnames.html - this is the only one which appears to survive in a publically-accessible area, but if there's interest (yeah, right) I could dig into my archives and post the sequel(s) I wrote after getting such a big response from the first one.
I should note that several of the responses I got were from people who owned or worked with goofy-named companies, and some told of how hard it was to get a name registered since so many hundreds of thousands of companies are already out there, taking up the sensible ones... and remember, this was over 6 years ago now, long before even most computer people had heard of the Web...
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Re:Pronunciation and keyboard memorization
Typing of pronunciation and the like, has anyone considered alternative names for the Dvorak keyboard, that might perhaps be less ambiguous as to pronunciation? QWERTY is fairly straightforward, everyone I know says "kwert-ee".
Looking at the Dvorak layout, similar reasoning might name it the Quote-y layout. Or possibly even the waka-waka.
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Re:But wait, could it be... USEFUL?
a little off-topic, and no doubt well-known, but this is what folk did in the olden days.