Tag: ERROR

We're not sure if this is the actual error page for Google's new ebookstore, but we sure hope so. A not-so-subtle tribute to Twitter's Fail Whale, the watercolor graphic features a frustrated Ahab chasing that elusive white whale, better known as Moby Dick. This could be part of the older Google Books, or a non-functioning joke error page. Regardless, we really dig it. ...

Share In what could be the next big trend in online marketing, Burger King has launched a '404 error page' campaign on the social news site Digg to promote its latest cheeseburger deal. According to Brand Freak, when a user visits Digg and enters an incorrect search, this error message will appear on the screen: "Looks like your search had a typo. Maybe you've got tiny hands?" If that ...

Finder's keepers is a refrain echoed on playgrounds, but a Dutch woman might soon use it as her defense in the courtroom. According to DutchNews, a man from Wageningen, The Netherlands made a costly error while trying to transfer funds from his bank account to his son's. With one wrong keystroke, the man sent about $63,500 to a woman's account in Almelo. While most sane folks would simply return ...

Despite the best efforts of tech savvy friends and Web sites (like this one), you, the Web-using public, simply continue your bad browsing habits. A new study shows, and we mean this in the nicest way possible, that you're just not listening. Faculty from the psychology department at North Carolina State University conducted a study in which students were presented with a series of fake Windows ...

Here's another tale of e-mail messages gone awry that ought to teach you to be careful the next time you hit the "send" button. A lawyer for pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly mistakenly sent an important e-mail to a New York Times reporter whose name is similar to that of another lawyer working with her on a billion dollar settlement between the drug company and the U.S. government. Eli Lilly is ...

Every week, U.K.-based comedy site B3TA holds an image challenge on its message boards. This week's challenge: What if computer errors told the truth? Tons of people turned out to submit entries -- some great and some ... well ... not so great. So, we plowed through the pages and pages of pics to bring you some of the very best so far. Nothing and no one escapes unscathed. Apple, Linux, and, of ...