The world is a wondrous place:
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules – each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity. Here are some actual error messages from Japan. Aren’t these better than "your computer has performed an illegal operation?"
Here are just a few examples. Here is more.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Zimon
on Jan 22nd, 2007
@ 15:52 pm:
More here
1998. Damm I’m getting old.
Alice Bachini-Smith
on Jan 30th, 2007
@ 16:02 pm:
Wow, that’s beautiful. (More likely to make me cry than the short film, actually).