Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

There’s just one problem with the NYC condom program: the colors of their lettering don’t match the actual subway line colors:

The colors should actually look something more like this:

There’s no O or Y line, so I substituted the nearest I could find, the 1/2/3 for O and 7 for Y. Note how much uglier the actual real subway colors are. Makes me want to redesign all of NYC’s subway colors. Or just take them from their new condom. The old colors don’t match!

There’s nothing in the terms of service that I can see that would prohibit you from running an adult-themed blog on Wordpress.com, but it seems a little bit distasteful to feature blogs with adult content on the front page. The one I ran into today wasn’t popular enough to eclipse Robert Scoble, but what if it were powered by Fark or SA, who regularly link to distasteful adult content? Then we’d have an interesting problem.

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Everyone’s talking about the Zune error screen which, according to Newsvine is far too sexy for public consumption:

What is it with Microsoft and having poor taste? This isn’t just a small “oops, guess we messed up” mistake, and in all likeliness, it’s a conscious decision even. They are trying far too hard, apparently hoping to link the Zune with the image of raving orgasms and happy couples kissing in the grass. Is this Microsoft’s response to the general consensus that iPods are so sexy, people have commented (numerous times) they would make love to the thing?

Here’s the error screen so you can try and make a decision yourself (link goes to a rip from the binary):

I wondered what it was called, so I pulled the following strings out of their binary:

var s_bkgArray = new Array(”SL01-welcome.png”, “SL02-spread.png”, “SL03-seeIt.png”, “SL04-watchBig.png”, “SL05-radio.png”, “SL06-personalize.png”);
var htmlInstallError = “S085-apperror.htm”;

The actual file is just named some random bg85.png or something, which is useless. The binary also has no meta-data associated with the image, unfortunately. So, all we know is that there’s a pretty asian girl in a state of partial undress making a screaming face with a couple (possibly women) kissing in the background. Final verdict? Not interesting! Move on!