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Whenever I see government officials mess up I get reminded of the famous Marcus Aurelius quote:
"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua."
Which I think sums it up perfectly
I'm also reminded of the old article, which described how the ancient samurai charged into battle, shouting You must install Flash plugin to view this content.
In times of strife, I turn to the famous words of Shakespeare: "An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server could not be made." Truly, wiser words have never been spoken.
Are we talking Adobe Flash ancient or Macromedia Flash ancient?
My favorite 404 page has to be the one on Adult Swim's website. It has a short story on it that (I believe) they still occasionally switch. The current one:
LIVING WITH THE ECHO
The echo – as I call it – can be felt at any time, and is often so profound, I look into the eyes of whoever’s around, expecting them to share in its wonder. At best I’m met with polite, confused smiles. Undaunted I ride out this secret frequency until it ebbs, leaving me with an aching nostalgia for mere seconds ago.
So what is this sensation? Let’s start here: I’m eleven pedaling my dirtbike through the soon-to-be-developed wooded area near my house. The path is slick with mud and fallen leaves. I race both against the clock (dinner is soon) and a shallow stream that runs parallel, about six-feet below to my right.
This is before digital. My playlist is clouds, trees, and water. I am attuned to nature – with the exception of a fallen, gnarled branch that demolishes my front rim and sends me screaming headfirst over the side.
IMPACT. Everything goes gray.
Colors resume as I reorient on a bed of grit and stone, shallow water coursing over my sweater and jeans. Nothing feels broken and I’m not alarmed. I remain still, oddly at peace. The stream feels otherworldly, beyond water, a place of belonging. I gaze at the dense blue sky, framed by a canopy of thrashing branches. Rainwater gushes by my ears, roaring like applause. Inexplicably this dirty, wet place offers a sort of warmth and protection. I’m a clumsy kid who found a womb in the woods.
It’s later I learn that I fractured the base of my skull and lost a lot of blood. That I remained in the stream for two hours, which contracted (in my mind) to five ecstatic minutes. The doctors say I was in shock with a mild brain injury. Months of physical rehab and cognitive tests got me back on my bike, though I wouldn’t experience the world as I briefly had, alone and bleeding to death – until the echo, which began a year ago.
The echo comes on like a vibration of pure bliss, and I suddenly remember how free and alive I felt in the stream. Colors dance. Sound takes on added dimension. Imagine a seizure that heightens your senses and drops the veil of the ordinary world to reveal iridescence and pure harmony everywhere. It. Is. Beautiful.
Then it goes away and you feel haunted by a fantastic party that ended too early.
Friends worry when the echo causes me to adopt the look of a grinning madman, my eyes alive. Sometimes I drool, but what’s a funny face when you’ve entered the divine?
I don’t want anyone to worry so I joke that my brain just experienced a sort of 404/error. My code is messed up ha ha. I’m ok. I’m ok. I’m ok.
I’m not ok. Because I live for that interruption.
I only exist in 404/error. I am no one any other time.
I don’t dream anymore. Sleep is now a pitch-black advertisement for death. Guess my brain has plenty to do, staging short plays of the impossible, during waking hours.
Take your badhistory bullshit somewhere else. I just watched Gladiator, and Anthony Hopkins never said that, so...yeah, GTFO.
I also remember the old saying which is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
It's not quite on the same level, but somewhere I have a screenshot of words along the lines of "test, no one should see this" on Bank of America's account views.
"If you can see this it means I have to come back from vacation and go to the fucking office."
Well let's see it then
Looks like I forgot some details (such as that I used to voluntarily use a Mac and that I was obsessed with Cracked.com; I have no idea why I had a NASA page open), but here you go.
By the way, I cropped this image from the original full-screen screenshot in case I was missing any identifying information that was on display, but you might be amused to know that the last tab I had open was "How to Take a Screenshot on a Mac."
Haha cool shit!
I'll try to find it and try even harder to remember to put it here.
Taken down. Big sad.
AHH FUCK! you saw it right!? OH GOD. IT WAS REAL RIGHT? Do you remember it? TELL ME YOU REMEMBER!!! They're cleaning up their tracks. They're tying up loose ends. Wake the fuck up Sugar, WE'RE THE LOOSE ENDS! Sugar, you need to listen to me! This is important, it's only a matter of time un
Uh oh, nuke got nuked. Hold on, I think someone's at th
Still there for me.
Huh, works now for me? I got a 404 when I posted this...
clear your cache
Oh fuck...why did the DoD post the name of the street I grew up on, the city my parents met in, and the name of my first pet?
It's ok, that's just the code to the pizza place outside the Pentagon to send extra sauce.
The first government document I can relate to and understand entirely.
Dude, OpSec come on
Obviously the content has been encrypted, it's all gibberish. Good luck cracking that code ФСБ. Oh, and by the way, asfasfafafafaffsssfafssfafsfsfafasssfsfddads!
Still conveys some information: seems they are using a qwerty layout.
Just 404s now D:
SLEEPER AGENTS … ACTIVATED
"Somebody get the transition team away from the keyboard please."
It’s the covfefe we were warned about!
The one "sad" towards the end really sells it.
TARGET CONFIRMED
The raven flies at midnight
Well done crust! Get it right, Mr. Caesar!
LMAOOOOOO
