11 December 2010

Whale Fail [The Internet is Down]

The Google eBookstore launched a couple of days ago (unfortunately, it's region-locked, so it'll take a while for the service to roll out everywhere), and just as quickly people discovered that the Google Books site has an error page that pays homage to Twitter's Fail Whale:


Props to the Google Books team for both the nod to Twitter and the intelligent literary reference (to Moby Dick, in case you missed it). Personally, I feel strangely validated that I'm not the only one who's taken notice of these quirky error pages, seeing how widely this "Whale Fail" has made the rounds on different social media channels.

Now if only The Internet is Down would go viral as a meme like I'd planned...

[Confused about The Internet is Down? Then read the first in the series.]

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