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It's also not a WTF. It tells you the dimensions when it is fully assembled, not that it currently is assembled.
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The Target one is kinda lame. I think it's pretty obvious that they're specifying the dimensions when fully assembled. The others are gold :)
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I think I'll go Buy some toxins, I hoep I can get some cheap.
The funny thing about this is that all sorts of crap like this turns up. I've had the opportunity to buy all sorts of stuf I did not even know was available.
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What is the meteo "applet" in the last entry ?
I kind of like the theme, and I would like to steel it ;-)
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The phrase "full explanation" seems to be a different shade of blue, as if it were a hyperlink.
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I think that's just an OS X weather widget..
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"Undo Undo" ?
Too... many... jokes...
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OK, call me stupid if you like, but after staring at this for a good few minutes I've completely failed to spot the WTF. I guess it's either because a) I live in the UK so am unfamiliar with some key aspect of US geography and/or postal regulations, or b) because I'm being a total muppet.
Could someone clarify please?
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That is the weather widget from the OS X dashboard.
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How is this a WTF? Sure, it's funny and all, but it's a user configurable value. I'd give them several points for creativity, but this is hardly a WTF (unless the W is for 'who').
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Look at the delivery location up top, and then down below
One says Linden, VA the other says Front Royal, VA
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Look at the "Delivery on" date and the "Shipped or billed on" date.
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If you look at the delivery location on the top half of the page, you see that it was delivered to the front door, in Linden, VA. The bottom half indicates that it was delivered to Front Royal, VA, which is a separate city, about 20km away.
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Linden and Front Royal Virginia are about 10 miles apart - look at the two addresses
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... Allthough, that's not a WTF, one is the UPS station and the other is the actual delivery address.
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The UPS WTF - apparently they re-use their tracking numbers. It says that "billing information was received" in October 2006, and the delivery was made in June 2006...
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erm - not to mention that it was shipped in October but delivered in June (of the same year)
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"anyone, full explanation?"
Did you try clicking on the "full explanation" link?
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I don't get this one... Maybe a bit confusing between what the distinction is, but a WTF?
The real WTF here is that the top line says "TigerNet --- Not Connected", but below "You are currently connected to this network."
What's that about? (I haven't used wireless personally... I don't have a laptop.)
I also like how it was delivered three and a half months before it was sent, and without being picked up or transferred through any holding facilities first.
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Linden and Front Royal are adjacent, it's not surprising that a driver might not know the exact physical boundary between them.
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Read the second computer monitor screen.
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I just got the NVidia one. Look at the two screens to the right of the list of options. They say "View....." "Anal....."
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Hah! I see now...
I think someone should call their tech support line and ask about how their software knows their surfing habits.
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No, this next one isn't really computer related ... but Ben did appreciate the new definition of "fully-assembled" for this product at Target ...
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Read the text on the monitors. ;)
CAPTCHA: creative
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Coloring hyperlinks so they stand out from the rest of the text is so 90s. Why spoil
all the rest of that beautiful blue text with some clashing color?
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Good eye, sir. I agree that looks like a hyperlink to the full explanation. It's not very obvious, though. I thought it was a jpg artifact.
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Seriously, it was not a hyperlink.
However, in the defense of the software, it was a Beta2 release of Microsoft Max. I tried clicking everywhere, and those words were certainly not hyperlinked. Perhaps they fixed this already.
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Now that I look at it again, I see it. To my (and Igal's) credit, the surround color makes it much harder to notice. Heres the full image:
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i'm actually wondering what kinda of thing this is.
it's some sort of personal msg but with a direct action button.
The theme looks kinda GNOMEish but i've never seen this, I do get a vibe that this is some sort of mockup for a 'this would be cool to have' application.
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Ok, I'm glad someone explained what was supposed to be funny about this because I sure couldn't figure it out on my own. I still don't think it's funny but at least now I know what it was supposed to be. I don't get why this made the cut, is everyone around here an 11 year old boy?
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Yeah, a while back e-Bay was trying to sell me a short-lived medical radioisotope.
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I don't know where this forecast is from, but here it's MostlyNull.
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The real WTF is how many people failed to look at the shipped/delivery dates on the UPS screen the caption itself says "Jason was pretty pleased that UPS was able to ship his order back in time."
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I read "back in time" as returned in a timely manner, not as a measure of time. I would assume that others read it the same way I did.
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BILLED on...meaning he wasn't billed till quite later. Pretty sweet if you asked me.
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No, but neither are we a bunch of old ladies.
Rich
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I hate those things with an absolute passion. They signifigantly increase the time the page needs to load, and interrupt me while I'm reading. Every time I run across one, I immediately try and figure out the server so that I can block it, and don't stop until I finish.
HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE those!
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Not only that but being links, they are misrepresenting themselves as relevant information linked by the producer of the page.
The local library has something which puts these things on all pages the PCs retrieve. Makes me want to puke.
Possibly the next innovation for Firefox would be to get rid of these?
Rich
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humm.. turn off javascript...
captcha: batman.. he doesn't need javascript
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What does that have to do with anything? I didn't say I was offended I just said you are juvenile. I think Beavis and Butthead are funny, I'm just surprized to find them writing articles for a technical website.
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The problem is that that sentence can be parsed two ways. Back in time, as in 1.21 jigowatt back in time, or as in "Jason received something and sent it back through UPS, which they managed in time".
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I hate them too. Luckily, I have Firefox. And Greasemonkey. And the "Uh Oh! Intellitext link ad remover" script.
I never see them anymore. Hooray!
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Not related, but funny.
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The most useless sign in America!
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That's "GigaWatt"
And yes, it was pronounced correctly in the movie.
Rich
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Perhaps not really a WTF but funny enough and close enough to topic to be worth including amongst the other examples I would suggest.
Rich