« My revived passion | Main | Traditional thinking vs Design Thinking »
January 18, 2007
The time machine listbox.
More listbox laughs. I've talked about interesting listboxes before, but this latest one combines really poor geography and history in a single list. In fact, some of the listings here pre-date DOS, the Internet, and probably DARPA itself. Definitely Fedex. Hell, maybe even the postal service for some of them. See what I mean:
My mate is trying to fill in a web form. Wait, where's South Africa in the country list? Huh? This is what's listed instead: 
(To some our geographically-challenged North American friends, South Africa is south of France :)
Here's more information on 'where' Transkei is, and what happened to SWA.
But it gets better. Where's Zimbabwe?
Digging around the list comes up with these hints:
.
And ladies and gentlemen, step into my time machine: 
.
Wtf is Nyasaland you ask. Good question.
Oh, by the way, the site sells iPod covers, great product. But really odd reg. forms.
Posted by sdehaast at January 18, 2007 6:17 PM Posted to chuckle
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.ideafarm.co.za/mt/mt-tb.cgi/499