The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

An Easy Decision

by Alex Papadimoulis in Error'd on 2009-04-30

"I saw this at on a local gas station's pump," wrote Ryan Neufeld. "Debit? Yes? Cashier? I don't get it."

64 comments - Last comment @ 2009-12-14

Safe ASCII Love

by Alex Papadimoulis in Error'd on 2009-04-28

"I wanted to treat Fluffy to some customized ASCII love with a <3 pet ID," Stacy wrote. "I'm glad Petsmart.com has protected her from XSS attacks!"

78 comments - Last comment @ 2011-08-19

Circular Logic

by Alex Papadimoulis in Error'd on 2009-04-23

"Well that's an easy fix," Clemens noted, "all I have to do is open the— hey, waitaminute!"

85 comments - Last comment @ 2017-11-15

Headline Across Here

by Alex Papadimoulis in Error'd on 2009-04-21

"I didn't realise 'The Chronicle' (Canberra) had become a 'do it yourself' newspaper," Kevin Rudd commented.

96 comments - Last comment @ 2011-02-23

To Pay or Not To Pay

by Alex Papadimoulis in Error'd on 2009-04-16

Tian van Heerden wrote, "this message came up on the automated parking pay-station at Cavendish Square here in Cape Town."

74 comments - Last comment @ 2009-09-11

It's Started

by Alex Papadimoulis in Error'd on 2009-04-14

"Hyperinflation. It's started," writes Luke Heidelberger. "$1800 for a family-sized bottle of cheap white wine."

78 comments - Last comment @ 2009-04-24

#NO DATA

by Alex Papadimoulis in Error'd on 2009-04-09

"While walking around Baltimore," Neal notes, "I came across a ticker that had one news story that didn't seem complete."

78 comments - Last comment @ 2009-04-14

No More Messages

by Alex Papadimoulis in Error'd on 2009-04-07

"Not only did the ATM run out of ink," wrote Tim A, "but it would appear that the marketing department has finally run out of messages!"

78 comments - Last comment @ 2011-07-30

Blaming XP

by Alex Papadimoulis in Error'd on 2009-04-02

"I got this on my Vista machine recently," Jing Zhang writes. "I guess Vista is now blaming XP for failure?"

81 comments - Last comment @ 2009-05-14

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