Halt! State your Business!
Published by Christy Dena January 30th, 2005 in generators, hyperfic.Saw this Error Message Generator on Drew Davidson’s blog and couldn’t help but create some popups that a user / interactor / operator / reader / vuser / viuser / wreader / player etc may come across:
These aren’t too far off the actual experience… wanna add one?
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What fun. Here’s another:
Excellent - I enjoy generators in general. This puts me in mind of one of the things that has always bothered me about overbuild GUI interfaces to what are essentially command-line tools - that things like modal dialogs are extremely intrusive, the more so when one has an expectation of control….
Windell over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories snapped a picture at the Exploratorium of a museum display that crashed, leaving the projector showing an error dialog box - a non-interactive dialog box!
haha!
Dont give them any more ideas for more annoying errors. :)