Things That Work

…says Chris of Grooveshark’s rather disappointing entry for the “Bug of the Beast”:

Got tired of looking at the default theme, and we’re hitting some serious crunch time at work, so I’m definitely not going to have time to make a personalized theme for at least a month. So, going with a theme for now.

So, just writing a quick note while I wait for Skyler, Colin, and Jay to fix this error on one of our development servers, since I can’t really continue to debug the thing I was currently debugging in Grooveshark Lite until it’s fixed.

I’d like to share this error with you:

Apparently this is an error that we’re throwing. A typo, of course, but an unintentionally hilarious one.

Edit: Ah. Apparently it’s more of an Easter Egg than a typo, albeit one that a user would never see on the production server.

Here’s a nifty little prank you can pull on a friend (or coworker) with a Mac (works in both Tiger and Leopard). You should be fairly comfortable with working on the command line before you play with this. Also, follow these instructions at your own risk. While this procedure is pretty safe, we are going to be messing with the internal defaults of OS X. I am not responsible if you break your Mac.

Imagine this: You accidentally left your computer unlocked when you left for the evening. When you came back the next day, your wallpaper has been changed to something …humorous. So you sigh, and change your wallpaper back. Except, a few minutes later, the wallpaper is back. No matter how many times you change your wallpaper, the other image just keeps coming back a few minutes later. Restarting does not help. You also notice other little inconsistencies, like, whenever you go to reset your wallpaper, System Preferences still says it’s set to your original wallpaper, even though that’s obviously not what’s being displayed. And every couple of minutes, the Dock flickers. What’s going on?

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