Error message of ze day

The International Mozart Foundation in Austria has posted the sheet music for all of Mozart's scores online, and is offering them as free downloads. Apparently they're been very popular, and the number of downloads must be straining their server, because the download page bears this warning message:

NOTE: We are overvelmed by the resonance of this website. We regret
any delays in accessing this site and are working on expanding
our server capacities

Yeoz, weightlifter

While poking around on my hard drive, I unearthed
a Game Neverending chat transcript from about three years ago. It's from when yeoz had discovered a bug in GNE Mark II that allowed him to pick up an enormous number of items, and he was seeing just how far it would go. Here's his moment of glory:

yeöz:*Ahem*
yeöz picks up 2880851 bananas.
striatic: yes!
Aaaugh! applauds
yeöz: You pick up 2880851 bananas. pack weight +230468080.
yeöz: i'm not going to eat them though…
striatic cries tears of joy.
yeöz drops 2880851 bananas.
striatic: are you still below 0% capacity
yeöz: holy cow
yeöz: it jumped even
yeöz: -531k%
Aaaugh!: What are you going to do for an encore?
striatic: because then you can walk around with them and not lose energy
yeöz picks up 2880851 bananas.
yeöz drops 2880851 bananas.
striatic: weird
yeöz: i'm only -70k% with *all* the bananas 🙂
Plurp has arrived.
Aaaugh!: I wonder how many harpsichords you could carry now.
striatic: nice work
Plurp: An infinite number.

The Wombat

The wombat lives across the seas,
Among the far Antipodes.
He may exist on nuts and berries,
Or then again, on missionaries;
His distant habitat precludes
Conclusive knowledge of his moods,
But I would not engage the wombat
In any form of mortal combat.

—Ogden Nash

The world is too meta

Traditional media outlets have begun using Wikipedia as a source from time to time. In a piece about the abashed Michael Richards ("Michael Richards: still not a Jew"), the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles referred to his Wikipedia article for some biographical details. Shortly after the story was published, somebody edited the Wikipedia article to add the Jewish Journal piece as a reference regarding his religious upbringing. Nnrf. My brain hurts.

The Times, they are etc., etc.

I'm not normally one to pay attention to the font choices of British newspapers, let alone attempt to critique them, but when London's The Times redesigns, I suppose it's worth paying attention. It is, after all, the paper for which Times New Roman was created. Newspaper mastheads are often a good place to observe the evolution of typographic style, and The Times was kind enough to provide a slideshow covering their changes since 1785. The professional crowd seems to approve of the change, but I'm not so sure I like it. While it does hark back to a design from the 1960s, and certainly meets their goals of being "masculine, English, direct, [and] simple", it's too abstracted for my tastes. It looks fine in mixed case, but in all caps, it's as if it's become a caricature of its former self. Maybe I just need some time to get used to it.

Here are their most recent mastheads and typefaces:

Times Roman (1982)

Times Millennium (1991)

Times Classic (2002)

Times Modern (2006)