Or maybe “tumble” would be more appropriate…
Needless to say, the dryer was out of order. I mean, seriously, when was the last time you saw a 16-sided die?
Category: You Must be Mistaken
Silly Comment Spammer…
Yesterday I got a strange comment that I thought looked a bit spammy. It was one of those sneaky comments that pretends it’s reporting a problem on your site. The layout looks off in Chrome, or is broken in Firefox, etc. Except, of course, when you look at it in that browser, it’s just fine.
This one claimed that they’d gotten an alert on their firewall when hitting the blog, and could it be related to one of your ads?
Unlikely given how few ads I use, but possible, since I had a third-party poll, some Amazon links, and a banner for Mozilla Plugin Check. Still, the author’s website looked pretty spammy, once I pulled out the extra w, so I put it back in moderation–
Wait, what was that about an extra w?
Well, they’d linked to wwww.[REDACTED].com. Kind of amusing, but I didn’t think anything of it until I had the chance to look for other sites with similar comments…and found that they all pointed to the broken site!
Are You Sure This is Not A Door?
Let me guess: Magritte designed this building.
GeoCities No More / Com & Line
GeoCities lingered for a day, but has shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. Over at Speed Force, I wrote a piece on GeoCities, RIP: Fandom’s Lost Pages.
Interesting typo seen on a mailing list: “com and line option.” (command line)
Starbuck(’)s Coffee
I found this sign on the day after National Punctuation Day. You can still see the residue from the adhesive where the extra apostrophe was attached.
Someone clearly got Starbucks Coffee confused with Starbuck’s coffee. Of course, in some cases, they could be the same thing:
Flickr photo by amidalasrogue