The Search That Said “Ack”

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this March 1st, 2007 9:34 pm

So yeah, flickr was swallowed by the big fish Yahoo, and piss off the old skoolers.

At least the site still surprises with some bursts of quirky personality syndrome, as a search today just resulted in a Bill The Cat response:

ack.jpg

You gotta love an error that says, “Ack”! It makes you want to say, “Thbbbt”.

In stark contrast, compare to the warm and fuzzy, make you smile, error messages from ‘other’ systems:

Why Did I Update?

I’ll take the Ack, please.

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3 Responses to “The Search That Said “Ack””

  1. Tony Forster Says:

    Just upgraded from oldskool. Getting more lag and errors it seems than before.

  2. ggwfung Says:

    the personal touch often goes missing in the quest for standardisation. Happens everywhere.

    ggw

  3. Gardner Says:

    No love for the cute little bomb? Nothing said “you’re hosed” in a friendlier way. :)

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