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Museum Of Broken Packets

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the put-them-on-a-milk-carton dept.

hobbicik writes: "Quote from the page: 'The purpose of this museum is to provide a shelter for strange, unwanted, malformed packets - abandoned and doomed freaks of nature - as we, mere mortals, meet them on twisted paths of our grand journey called life.'" Interesting and amusing idea. Most of the wasted packets I get are IIS worm attempts -- not nearly as interesting.

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  1. Be sure by ez76 · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Be sure to include this tragically lost packet.

  2. Where is this museum located? by Goronguer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is it, by any chance, on the Island of Misfit Toys?

  3. Wabi-Sabi by DaoudaW · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    All things are imperfect. Nothing that exists is without imperfections. When we look closely at things, we see the flaws. The sharp edge of a razor blade, when it is magnified, reveals pits, chips, and variegations. And as things begin to break down and approach the primordial state, they become even less perfect, more irregular, and perhaps more lovely.

    --Exquisite Decay

  4. You, sir... by Coldwar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...are a big geek.

    And I applaud you for it!

    Cool idea!

    -cw

  5. Re:Huh? by Millennium · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, perhaps the reason Slashdot rejected it was that they already ran a story on Apple's alpha blending patent several days ago?

    Not all rejections are ridiculous, you know.

  6. Oh no... not another UPS - related story by hriste22 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Jocking for a funny post....

    Hriste22

  7. The Prodigal Packet by Newt-dog · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The weirdest returned email packet I received was from an email newsletter that I had sent out 5 years ago. It had been bouncing around since 1995 and came back to me as undeliverable 5 years later! Now I'm not sure how or why, but when it came back I opened it and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the date and the headers!
    I'm not sure if this is what you would call a malformed packet, but definitely a lost one that had returned home to roost!

    Newt-dog

    --
    My Doctor prescribed daily nasal saline irrigation, hehe