Convolute J: Jacque's Justice (Most Creative Error Messages of 2011)

What could be worse than being foiled by your favorite media outlet? Possibly being directed to an uncreative redirect page. Best "Whoops" designs of 2011 after the break.

#1: The Bleary, Twitter Curmudgeon Chiller Template

This designer for Twitter makes apt use of the ambiguity surrounding the word "chill." Is "chill as in halt" chill or dark? Do you identify with rabid ice cream cones? #immelting

#2: The Mac OS X Disses Spotify (It's-Just-Like-Real-Life Fun Factor of 1.25/5.00 Stars)

Safari, however, manages to convey the hauteur of a Mac down to its 404s.

#2.5: Derrida Deconstruction of the Blog Post

In an unrelated note, there is no better marker of absurdist anger than Angry French Philosopher Jacques Derrida ranting about Angry Philosophical Misinterpretations. Even deconstruction, a system of philosophical communication, gets a bad rap. Much like the Twitter and Mac error messages, he deconstructs deconstruction itself. As a method of literary inquiry, it's like Derrida is sending his own error message out to the public while he frames infinitely more abstract arguments.

#3: Google Bot is Awry

Makes sense that the physical realm of the computer, another system of high-level communication, has developed its own language for errors. As in the case of the Google bot below, which showcases a bot that's broken into pieces. I encountered the bot when trying to scrobble some old photographs on the New Friends blog here, another blog that seems atemporal with its rendition of antiquated photographs and modern text. But, here, you cannot help but laugh at the image of a perplexed robot as a 404 error.

You won't get information superhighway road rage with these error messages, unless that is, SOPA restricts one's ability to navigate the Internet.