Article 61EKZ Error'd: Shift-Meta-Errord

Error'd: Shift-Meta-Errord

by
Lyle Seaman
from The Daily WTF on (#61EKZ)

The submissions this week seemed to have coincidentallydeveloped a theme of self-reference. You tell me.

First, persistent Caleb S. tried over and over again to submit this same item for our consideration. He called it a "space-enfolding bus" and said that"There's apparently more space in this Afternoon Tea busthan meets the eye -- you can book seats for 500 adults and 500 children."Alas, his submission came without an image, so we asked for a do-over.Dutifully done, Caleb's second and third attempts both reported "Please use the comments from when I tried to submit this without an image."With that behind us, here is the image from the final attempt.



I thought there was some kind of mistake, but I finally figured it out. The Space-Enfolding Bus is also a Self-Enfoldingbus, and it's been swallowed by its own singularity. Or else it's snowing very hard.

Next, intrepid tourist Andreas R. noted "I came across this while browsing for travel SIM cards. I didn'trealize the United States had a population of over 300 trillionpeople! And one of the most interesting places to visit in theUSA is America, go figure." Not only is America a place to visitin America, it's also a country in America. Is bullshit contentgenerated for SEO truly a WTF anymore? Or is it just so derigeur that it can only be a JFC? Either way, it's just recursiveenough to clear this here bar. (Interestingly, note that since the USA has no official language, the boilerplate text has a NULL in it which could have been handled better or worse.)

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Security dabbler Metal Rafa does, and does not, reporting "It's good to have options, especially for those who can'tmake up their minds about unsubscribing from a marketingemail list or not. SentinelOne's mailing list softwarenow lets them do both at the same time!"

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Continental Faroguy found an error-rate error and shared it"Reddit was having trouble loading pages and the error ratereport was not encouraging."

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And finally, dedicated troublemaker Andy caught us in an edit and decided to rub our metaphorical nose in it."I stumbled on this gem in my RSS reader.Is this maybe a bit cheeky? Perhaps a bit too on thenose? Sure. But there's no world in which I can passit up." And no world in which I can turn it down, either. Roast crow, yum.

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