Via The Risks Digest:

Photos of a Windows crash at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta. Yep, that’s very clearly a VBScript runtime error of some sort…

And here’s the original posting, with a bit more detail on the circumstances of the crash.

I don’t think I ever posted this to my blog, but it’s good for amusement, if nothing else… I’m not sure narcissistic personality disorder fits to the extent the test claims– I don’t exactly seek attention and praise or exaggerate my achievements, and although I am choosy about picking friends, it’s mainly because my personality is just so weird— but the descriptions of schizotypal and avoidant personality disorders are a bit too close for comfort! 🙂

Mercer University Binary Bears Team A– the team that I’m on– ended up placing first in the undergraduate division and third overall. Once again, we’ve broken our own record. As it’s often said in geek dialect… w00t.

Does anyone reading this blog have a videotape (or DVD recording, or video capture) of the 1997 Spelling Bee episode of “Cheap Seats” on ESPN Classic? Right now, I’m in Melbourne, Florida for this year’s ACM regional programming competition, and the hotel at which I’m staying just happens to carry ESPN Classic… right now, Cheap Seats is mocking the 1994 Bee, and it’s hilarious. Yeah, this is the first time I’ve seen the show; I don’t get the channel at home or on campus. ::sigh::

So that’s why I’m asking. If anyone out there has a recording of the episode in question, leave a comment here on this post or drop me a line through the “e-mail me” link over to the right.

Edited 2004/11/07 to add: Thanks to a generous ESPN employee, I have a copy of the 30-minute version of the episode. Now if only I could find the hour-long version they aired as a pilot… I suppose they might have that somewhere in their archives. 🙂

USATODAY.com – Spelling counts, for some people

LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — A $40,000 ceramic mural was unveiled outside the city’s new library and everyone could see the misspelled names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures.

Oops.

TV station KRON has a slightly different version of the article with not just a clear photo of one of the misspellings but also a video clip about the errors.

And I hope I’m not the only one who’s noticed the irony in the Associated Press’ claim that the artist “offered no apologizes” for the misspellings, an error found in both USA Today’s and KRON’s version of the article…

Still no trip report, but at least I’ve finally posted some pictures of my costume. First off are these that I took myself:

Standing outside the dealer’s room. The costume was a bit of a mess in this one; I only realized how much of a mess it was after the fact.
In the hotel room. Not too bad, considering I took it using the self-timer feature on my camera…

And here are two others, thanks to Sarah:

Sitting down outside the dealer’s room. This is probably the best-looking of the pictures.
In the hotel room.

Plus, three bonus pictures of random cosplayers that I happened to get pictures of:

Alucard from Hellsing. (As an aside, this just happened to be the 666th picture taken on my digital camera…)
Risky & Safety from, well, Risky Safety.
Two Tetris blocks! One of the most imaginative costumes, to be sure…

Via the blogs at SpreadFirefox: a collection of manga-style Firefox and Thunderbird mascots drawn by Japanese Mozilla fans.

WordGizmo looks like a rather fun waste of time for clever, lateral-thinking, creative types. Similar to the Fantasy Name Game I came up with a while back using RinkWorks’ Fantasy Name Generator, the point of WordGizmo is to try to come up with creative definitions for randomly generated nonsense words. Be sure to check out the dictionary of the best entries so far; some of them are quite amusing. (via Presurfer)

Wow. It only took four days, not even half the expected time, for the preview release of Firefox 1.0 to reach a million downloads. This is just amazing.

Well. It’s been only two days since the preview release of Firefox 1.0, yet according to SpreadFirefox.com, the new version’s already been downloaded 502,659 times. Yes, that’s right: over halfway to the goal of a million downloads, in a fifth of the estimated time. This looks very hopeful indeed!