This is Broken

November 6, 2003 7:55 AM

This is Broken A compendium of bad designs. By Mark Hurst
more inside..
posted by anastasiav (9 comments total)

Amoung my favourites:

Blue
Do Not Enter
Information Police
ANAL
Not an Exit
posted by anastasiav at 7:55 AM on November 6, 2003

while not currently broken, any site hosted on a public clusterblog server like that one is bound to be, sooner or later.
posted by quonsar at 8:00 AM on November 6, 2003

Mark Hurst is a demi-god, and this site is great. Thanks for the link.
posted by Outlawyr at 8:05 AM on November 6, 2003

Excellent, anastasiav. I've already e-mailed this out to friends.
posted by carter at 8:11 AM on November 6, 2003

This is one of my favourite broken error messages:


posted by cbrody at 9:03 AM on November 6, 2003

I liked the Internet one.
posted by carter at 9:15 AM on November 6, 2003

I have a photo of a road sign that says "Road Ends 0 mi", and the road ends abruptly, right there.

I should send it to him.
posted by gottabefunky at 9:54 AM on November 6, 2003

The playground stuff is great .. it just got printed and put on on the wall in the hallway where I work.

(we are building some schools and this was good for a laugh. . . .thanks!)
posted by Danf at 12:20 PM on November 6, 2003

any site hosted on a public clusterblog server like that one is bound to be, sooner or later

Uh, I dunno quons. We've had TypePad slashdotted, NYTimes'ed, Farked, and all other manner of linkage and haven't had any problems. Not to say our infrastructure couldn't get overwhelmed, as any server will have downtime, but I'd bet we measure up pretty well in comparison.
posted by anildash at 1:01 PM on November 7, 2003