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Wow, talk about error messages 2.0

Fred Oliveira on June 2, 2006

Technorati Here’s something that just lightened my mood. I was checking Technorati and something blew up in California. Seriously, because their whole site is talking crazy-talk! This has got to be the longest error message I’ve seen in a long time. Well, now that I think about it, that’s not an error message at all, but an invitation to insanity! Here’s the message Technorati was showing me 2 minutes ago:

“The Flying Spaghetti Monster has arrived and we have all been taken to planet Zeus 94 to kneel before Zod. All this is a little much for us to handle at the moment so come back later please. And leave a quarter in the collection tray on your way out.”

Honestly, that made me forget that there was an error in the first place - it didn’t say much about the mental state of the people over at Technorati either, but you know what I mean. When I talked about “Web 2.0″ error messages in the first place I wasn’t really thinking “go insane”, but it sure as hell works.


Comments on this post

Ken

Haha, I want to chill with the Technorati guys.

John Koetsier

That is a *great* error message. I’ll have to remember it …

EJ Fox

You have to love the flying spaghetti monster!

Obviously Technorati has been blessed by his noodly appendage…

…RAmen. And so on and so forth….

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[...] “The Flying Spaghetti Monster has arrived and we have all been taken to planet Zeus 94 to kneel before Zod. All this is a little much for us to handle at the moment so come back later please. And leave a quarter in the collection tray on your way out.” - Technorati (via) [...]

Akram

Error messages 2.0 han… really interesting…

Thats what Yahoo is doing in its mail BETA… Here is the message which is shown when you open Yahoo mail BETA on an incompatible OS “Bummer — your operating system is a no-go.” …

asurroca

Wow, Flickr’s “massage” message is one thing, but this is great! Wish you could’ve posted a screenie.

But, think about it. The attitude prevalent in web2.0 tends to be somewhat loose and quirky. What with the bright candy colors and wide open spaces and lack of capitalization, etc., an error message about the Flying Spaghetti Monster doesn’t surprise me at all!

Kingsley Joseph

How about Skobee’s feeling a little hungover from last night’s rager ?

Andreas

Interesting…

Something to say?