Fields of Watermelons Found on Mars, Police Say (NYTimes)

A female acquaintance in grad school used a file named `giant-dong.png` as a lorem ipsum placeholder for figures in things like her thesis, posters, etc. It was exactly what you think, doodled in MS Paint years ago.

I am, to this day, astounded that it never blew up in her face.

...I see what you did there

Life imitates art :) https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_news_ticker_messages

> Gravy Tastes Better When Loudly Slurped; Scientists Baffled

I always loved those.

If you go to the actual NY Times site, you get:

"This article was published in error.

June 8, 2021 Updated 2:38 p.m. ET

This article was published in error."

Undoubtedly hilarious. It looks like somebody was playing with the publishing interface and pushed a joke out by accident.

> "Authorities say...."

NYT isn't actually a credible news source anymore (hasn't been for a few years.)

Haven't we all pushed test data to production once in a while?