1506: xkcloud/Transcript

Help! We lost the picture

[After clicking on the red button on the first page you will go to the next page]

[At the top of the page there are the following text (every time?):]

Help! We lost the picture that goes with this post!

Reason for data loss: [Here follows a text which is a random reason taken from Randall's (or others?) input. See examples below)]

[Below is a white box on top of the light blue background. It is the post mentioned above. At the top is a random user picture - could be a person or a galaxy etc. Next to the picture is a random user name (the picture can be used for several user names)]

Reason for data loss

In alphabetical order:

• +++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR. REDO FROM START +++
• AOL window in front of Netscape window
• Baby ur much 2 fast
• butter overflow
• CRM-114 unit malfunctioning
• data too big
• Desystematized chronodynamic balancing detected in VX Module core.
• electrons too big, stuck in wafer
• ethics in journalism
• files overwritten with more interesting content
• friday squid blogging
• guru meditation #00000025.65045338 press left mouse button to continue
• GSM filter change required
• helvetica scenario
• illegal carrot detected in mail queue
• insufficient smoke for current mirror array
• lp0 on fire
• mean connection time exceeded
• microwave running
• nanobots in the water
• oh jeez there's a lot of you can you all just hang on for a second please oh frig this is so bad
• out of electrons
• overcurrent undervolt caused by vacuum cleaner on same circuit
• qubit indeterminate
• RDBMS completely forgot how inner joins work
• server fell in ocean
• server room haunted
• Something went wrong: Something went wrong (Something went wrong)
• spin number must be of the form n/2
• spontaneous splinal dereticulation
• SQL ejection
• temporal paradox
• the butter you have dialed is invalid or no longer in service
• the server is temporarily permanent. Please try another also.
• This copy of Ubuntu is not genuine and you have not yet resolved this issue.
• This page contains content from the Open Source Initiative, who have blocked it on copyright grounds.
• TRIED TO READ 9TH SIDE OF 8 TRACK
• unexpected timezone drift desynchronization
• user put spaces/vowels in filename
• UTF-31 decode error
• YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS

User names

• Paul1957
• Aidan2
• Marie3
• Lord Mondegreen

Our policy regarding your personal data:

• Please stop sending us your personal data
• We are running out of places to put it
• Is this even yours?
• Does anyone recognize whose data this is?
• Oh jeez never mind here comes more data
• Why are you doing this
• Please stop
• Help

This page allows users to submit entries to the "xkcloud", which has other images (drawn by other people? Someone confirm) to vote on, or "Draw Your Own" image options.

There is also a variant in which one creates text to go with an image.

xkcloud has "Like" buttons, similar to those on Facebook, but with random alternative text. Examples include:

• covet
• like-like
• yearn