World's Most Aggravating Edge Cases

Attempting to become an international man of mystery known only as Monsieur X, but airline websites say "X" is too short for the "last name" field

E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone by Michael Ward MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

one of the greatest philosophical debates of our times: how do you dispose of a bin

giftwrap sphere???

In the US Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? 2nd edition video game from Eidos & Jellyvision, entering your name as "Regis", "Millionaire", or one of the actual $10^6 winners on the show would result in the game changing your name to "Faker" or "Cheater". So I could not play the game as myself.

Northern Antarctica

downforeveryoneorjustme.com is down

(source: x.com/phattyCorpus...)

Discontinuities in civil time

Search interface with options "Search by ISBN/ASIN", "Search by Title", "Search by Author" and "Search by Publisher". "Search by Author" is selected. Under "Author Full Name", "qntm" has been entered. There is an error message in red: "Please enter a minimum of 5 characters"

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The way to discover which version of the Gnome desktop I'm running … depends on which version of the Gnome desktop I'm running.

I've so far found 4 different ways suggested in various online guides that don't work in this version, and 2 that give the wrong answer! @badedgecases.bsky.social

You and your friends try to visit All Bar One but it turns out that you are the one

Norman Reedus needing an adult to get him access to Discord because his face, and his face only, is blocked from verification

Just reposting the archive from Twitter

You might be delighted/horrified to learn that the machine-readable zone of ICAO passports encodes all dates as YYMMDD – including the date of birth.

Everything on Steam today is $2.99 buff.ly/2wGgxQo

Darts player with 20ft arms

Godot shows up

Joost Maglev on X: ". @badedgecases My wife had to replace her phone because the old one's camera was broken. Almost all of the banking and government apps and WhatsApp required her to restore her account by scanning a QR code with... the broken camera on her old phone. Often with no alternatives." / X . @badedgecases My wife had to replace her phone because the old one's camera was broken. Almost all of the banking and government apps and WhatsApp required her to restore her account by scanning a QR code with... the broken camera on her old phone. Often with no alternatives.

"My wife had to replace her phone because the old one's camera was broken. Almost all of the banking and government apps and WhatsApp required her to restore her account by scanning a QR code with... the broken camera on her old phone. Often with no alternatives."

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How to pass "Null" (a real surname!) to a SOAP web service in ActionScript 3 We have an employee whose surname is Null. Our employee lookup application is killed when that last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now). The error received is: <

An employee's surname is "Null" stackoverflow.com/questions/44...

A log, filtered for the string "*error*", not showing any errors but showing plenty of log output for events where the complex alphanumeric `sessie_id` entirely coincidentally contained the string "ErRor"

Bluesky post by @adamserwer.bsky.social, June 26, 2024: "It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court's big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed"

Sam Winkler on X: "Apparently if your child turns two while on an American Airlines flight and they’re still sitting on your lap, a US Air Marshall will perform a dragon suplex on them at exactly 12:00am midnight https://t.co/s4W13BMtH2" / X Apparently if your child turns two while on an American Airlines flight and they’re still sitting on your lap, a US Air Marshall will perform a dragon suplex on them at exactly 12:00am midnight https://t.co/s4W13BMtH2

"Apparently if your child turns two while on an American Airlines flight and they’re still sitting on your lap, a US Air Marshall will perform a dragon suplex on them at exactly 12:00am midnight"

YouTube video by jan Misali how many Super Mario games are there NOW?

A guided tour of every conceivable edge case you might encounter while attempting to define the term "mainline Super Mario Game"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ddm...

Duolingo: "Translate this sentence: How do you say goodbye in Italian?" User has entered "arrivederci" Duolingo: "Incorrect! Correct answer: ¿Cómo se dice adiós en italiano?"

"Biannual" event which occurs twice in every second year

4'33"

Joe Tidy BBC News on X: "I’m on a flight in US and an old lady has caused confusion, hilarity and then amazement as the crew expected her to be an infant. She is actually 101 and the computer can’t handle an age that high so just put her down as a 1 year old on the manifest. She laughed it off. Legend." / X I’m on a flight in US and an old lady has caused confusion, hilarity and then amazement as the crew expected her to be an infant. She is actually 101 and the computer can’t handle an age that high so just put her down as a 1 year old on the manifest. She laughed it off. Legend.

I dislike declaring a real human being to be a "bad edge case" but this is a great story

And a cautionary tale to everybody who creates user interfaces where people have to enter an age or date of birth

x.com/joetidy/stat...

During a soccer match, the referee, who has sole authority to cause the match to be stopped, suspended or abandoned, dies