MentalPolyphonics
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Instead of redirecting our feeds to Atom I added some images and code to randomize and beautify (?) our 404 error page.
It’s all automagic, so if you…
A. Take an image of something 404-ish,
B. Have upload access, and
C. Drop it into /images/404
… then it’ll be added to the rotation with no other setup. The shots currently spinning are some 404s I’ve spotted around town in the last 24 hours. Keep refreshing a broken link to see both.
Jared
I never understood why 404 pages exist. A proper webbrowser would not waste bandwidth and loading time by getting the message body of a “client error”. Instead, as soon as it gets a failure status it should disregard the rest of the message and display a generic, built-in error page. Probably including the reason phrase that goes along with the status (our reason phrase is “Not Found” – pretty deep!).
These goofy pictures are a slippery slope to the sites that send you down a rabbit hole when you hit a 404 or connect with a weird user agent.
SIN: Comments? « MentalPolyphonics
on February 19, 2010 at 8:11 pm
[...] be great. Refresh a couple of times — it’s dynamic, using the same code as our rotating 404s to pick a background (one of which you might recognize) under the lightly-alpha’d content [...]