As it turns out, Blizzard Entertainment’s game service battle.net has a fail pet!
Well, “fail pet” might be the wrong word for this, but who expected battle.net to have a cutesy kitten on their error pages anyway. Instead, they have a fellow who somewhat looks like the alien cousin of Lennie from “Of Mice and Men”.
“Oops”, indeed!
Thanks for the screen shot, clouserw!
Here’s another addition to the happy family of fail pets from across the Internet: The online merchant Zappos is well-known for executing an ordinary shopping experience (for shoes) extraordinarily well on the Web. They have RSS feeds, Twitter and Facebook integration and — of course — a “fail pet”:
I wonder if Dash the dog knows what the Zappos people all blame on him there?
By the way: Not to be outdone, I just replaced the picture on my own 404 page with a photo of my dog out of the recent dog content collection.
I know, I know. Technically, it’s only a fail pet if a web site uses a nice little creature on an error page announcing unplanned down-time of the service.
That makes this ASCII cow from Craigslist not really a fail pet, but I find it a nice enough idea to blog it anyway:
This little fellow shows up on the 404 error page (i.e., any page that does not exist on craigslist.org, such as this one). While it is just taken from a well-known UNIX command, I like it a lot because it goes very well with the simplicity of craigslist itself, which is intentionally so much different than all the shiny “Web 2.0″ applications.
Thanks for the hint, Jabba!
Another addition to my ever-growing fail pet collection. Today: Neatorama, a website collecting everything, well, neat.
Their “fail pet” is an octopus, the “Neatokraken”:
Fail whale, make room: You’ve got company.
Fred Wenzel is a Software Engineer at Mozilla. fredericiana is his blog about the things he runs across between American West Coast and southern Germany.
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