When you look at the bottom of your GMail window, you’ll notice links in the footer, cycling through more or less helpful tips as well as Google advertisements.
For years now, one of these links has been to the GMail Notifier for Mac:
Sadly though, this link to http://mail.google.com/mail/help/notifier/index.html (forwards to http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper) has, also for a long, long time now, been a not found error. As you can’t open a bug report with Google, I’ve emailed the GMail service people about this before, but I guess dead links in production software are not on top of their todo list.
Ah well, maybe they google for “Gmail fail” sometimes and find the bug report this way 
Here’s another, beautiful specimen in my little collection of what I have called “fail pets” for awhile now: Github.
I wonder if their pink fail-unicorn is somehow related to the similarly colored (but less angry) Django Pony. A distant relative, maybe — especially since the “original” Django pony was, in fact, a unicorn.
(Before someone is urged to remind me, yes, to my knowledge, github is written in ruby, not Python/Django.)
Click on the screenshot to see the error message YouTube just gave me when logging in:
And no, I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean…
Yes, yes it is. Says istwitterdown.com:
In fact, it is “too down” even to display the fail-whale. I’ve not seen that before 
PS: On an unrelated side note: hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com?
