one advantage to having bizarre (and rotating) 404 messages

Sometimes people will blog about them. This was the case with AK over at MyDigitalLife.

These 404 aliens are pretty ancient relative to our site's lifespan, but I'm happy new users are discovering them (tho, that also means they've done something wrong -- or we have). I guess I'm ambivalent about it.

Anyway, here's his favorite - the sunken forehead reddit alien:

Discover them all!

searching for the bill of rights

I wanted to refresh my memory about my favorite amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights (the 3rd -- you'll never see British troops being quartered in my home!). So I did what most people do, typed a simple Google query:

bill of rights US

Top search result?

USINFO - Error 404 - Page Not Found
usinfo.state.gov UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE. ... USINFO delivers information about current U.S. foreign policy and about American life and culture....
usinfo.state.gov/pub/ - 19k

U.S. Bill of Rights not found? I guess I shouldn't have been too surprised...