On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> What I'd like to do is build a publicly available database of web-centric error 
> message haiku, like:
> 
> 
>    You want that web page?
>    Like a pebble in a lake,
>    it is lost for now.
> 
> Why web-centric? I think that'd be of most use to the most people-
> perl web folks, apache people, php folks, etc. Not that perl haiku
> aren't useful, but just too specific to be good 404 pages.

How funny, I was just doing that:
<http://bunny.skillcheck.com/404notfound>

It's doing it the "wrong" way -- by grabbing one from a list of computer
error haikus returned by the fortune command, rather than auto-generating
relevant ones. Like Uri said, Coy.pm can do them on the fly. Check out the
paper Damien wrote on it, it's hilarious:
<http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/TPC/1999/Coy/>

 


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Chris Devers                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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