Dan Pfeiffer, Senior Advisor to the President for Strategy and Communications, will likely be looking into customizing his autocorrect settings today. [Gawker]
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4:38 am Wed
Oct 9, 2013
Tweet typo of the millenium committed
@Jack Hacked
The incompetence horrowshow is on Twitter right now! It’s lasted a few minutes; to my shame was I there to see it and wonder how long it would last, and it has not ceased yet. UPDATE, 1:02 p.m. Eastern Time: It has ceased.
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Unnervingly vague error messages from 1976
Marcin Wichary posted “an abridged list” of vague and therefore terrifying error messages from a 40-year-old word processor. Don’t you just hate it when very bad footnote distribution failures happen? This all has me looking forward to “error messages generated by a recurrent neural network,” or a science fiction thriller where the crew must contend […]
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Oops! United flight attendant accidentally posted cockpit door codes
The Wall Street Journal reports that human error is still a factor in potential cockpit door breaches.
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Teach STEM through space combat with these DIY drones
We all know those gifts we get “for the kids,” the ones that parents are secretly more excited to open. Drones are a perfect example, but there’s a model out there that really doubles down on that appeal. Introducing the Space Fighter Building Block Drones, a series of space fighter drones that are a blast […]
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Get over a million royalty-free vector images for less than $40
The hardest part of web design can be nailing down the look. These days, even non-designers can easily spot a stale stock photo or lazily-made icon. What’s the solution? No matter what kind of artist you are, it’s always a good idea to widen your palette. And with more than a million vector images to […]
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These wireless earbuds pack a week's worth of battery life for 75% off
For all that tech that gets squeezed into them, the best wireless earbuds are ones we barely have to think about. That’s the whole point, right? We get wireless because we just want to hit play and have a hands-free, cordless soundtrack for the rest of the commute. If that’s your philosophy, definitely give these […]
