First there's Comcast WTF that was originally posted by "cheesy" ...

Having not received my bill from Comcast (now Time Warner) one month, I called them up. They said they would send me another copy. This is what showed up a week later. Yup, 6 pages of screenshots of their fancy shmancy billing software

Although Domingos Soares Neto didn't quite get a picture of the buggy traffic light itself, he did snap a picture of the result.



(taken on 2008-01-06 from a building in São Paulo)

And then there's Medical malpractice, originally posted by "msarnoff" ...

Not computer related, but this ad on the cover of a phonebook caught my eye this morning: (sorry, my camera phone sucks) So now I know who to call if I want a botched operation!

And finally, the classic /bin/true, originally posted by "j_johnso" ...

While playing with the Solaris OS and reading through some of the included programs I came across /bin/true. For those not familiar with a *NIX system, this simply does nothing and returns sucessfully. Realizing that this was a shell script and not a binary executable, I decided to see how it was implemented. bash-2.05$ cat /bin/true

#!/usr/bin/sh

# Copyright (c) 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T

# All Rights Reserved # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T

# The copyright notice above does not evidence any

# actual or intended publication of such source code. #ident "@(#)true.sh 1.6 93/01/11 SMI" /* SVr4.0 1.4 */

bash-2.05$

I am not sure which is worse, that this is copyrighted, or that this is version 1.6. It really makes me wonder what the version history looks like.