As an illustration of my definition of ephemera (it doesn’t mean anything, it doesn’t add anything to human progress or otherwise, but it is way cool) : here’s what you can do with a scanner except scan…
I was browsing around for a way of using YouTube without the branded player (you know, the one with Youtube splashed all over the image). Turns out that YouTube has a form for feedback, a.o. for “Business”. So, I quickly whipped up a small email.
Much to my surprise, this is what I got in my mailbox :
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: Business Inquiry
Sent: 16/01/2007 15:06The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
business@youtube.com on 16/01/2007 15:06
The e-mail system was unable to deliver the message, but did not report a specific reason. Check the address and try again. If it still fails, contact your system administrator.
< sjl-smtp2.sjl.youtube.com #5.0.0 X-Postfix; host sjl-mbox1.sjl.youtube.com [208.65.153.154] said: 550 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command)>
Guess they don’t need our business, now that they’re swimming in Google cash..
Youtube is down, but in a scheduled way. And they show Google how to do a good cartoon…
