Public Execution


You arrive at the airport, in a hurry as usual. You look up at the flight departure screen, and it says "A fatal exception OE has occurred at.... The current application will be terminated..." You know the rest. This is the Epitaph in Blue that Windows issues for every application it terminates. Also known as the Blue Screen of Death -- or BSOD.

Lately Matt Michie, a writer and Linux hacker, has been keeping a growing gallery of public BSODs at his site (daimyo.org/bsod/), which ranks high among the many thousands of pages that show up in searches for "BSOD" or "Blue Screen of Death." From what we can tell, these include: a giant Las Vegas billboard, an airport flight schedule display, an ATM machine, a casino game, a building marquee and public signage of various unknown, but not unembarrasing, sorts.


There are high-res pix on the page: http://daimyo.org/bsod/