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I strongly agree with this comment. Sure, all us nerds know the Fail Whale. And Twitter is sort-of mainstream, but has nowhere near the adoption of Facebook —
by alanh 16y ago
I strongly agree with this comment. Sure, all us nerds know the Fail Whale. And Twitter is sort-of mainstream, but has nowhere near the adoption of Facebook — and those mainstream users, even when seeing the fail whale, may not know it goes by that name.
Now while I enjoy the artwork here, and it’s clever, this error page strikes me as
1. Overly nerd-centric / in-joke (Edit: I am referring to the Twitter reference, not the use of the word “fail” here)
2. Unprofessional (the word “fail” used as a noun)
3. Derivative.
- lukeschlather 16y ago1. This use of fail is becoming a fairly standard colloquialism. I don't think it's too hard for the average person to conclude Moby Dick from context, since they've probably heard someone under the age of 25 use fail in a similar manner. 2. Google is renowned and even loved for their "unprofessional" home page logos. This is no different, and there's nothing wrong with a bit of whimsy. 3. As is all art.
- alanh 16y agoRegarding item #2: The home page doodles are interesting and unconventional, but not unprofessional. This bastardization of English is not interesting, only unconventional in educated company, and certainly unprofessional.
- sdkmvx 16y ago"All nouns can be verbed, and all verbs can be nouned." (JARGON file). But seriously, this is how language evolves.
- wwortiz 16y agoWell it is much nicer than the google default http://www.google.com/blalgalgal http://www.google.com/blalgalgal
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