Complaining about captchas may be passé, but come on! This is fucking awful.

I’m no fan of football, but my parents are, and I’m planning to head over to their place tomorrow to celebrate my brother’s birthday. I’m using the power of the Internet to figure out when it’s scheduled to be over (assuming it doesn’t go in to extra innings) but have met severe frustration. For example, check out what Yahoo! TV has listed for “superbowl“:

• Super Bowl’s Greatest Commercials 2008 (Documentary, 2007 – present)
• The Fox Sports Special: XXXI Superbowl Green Bay vs. New England (Sports)
• Ralph Emery: On the Record With Mel

I tried clicking on the “when is it on?” link for the middle one since it was the most likely result, but apparently it’s not on in the next 14 days. I guess this is because this is a listing for the 1997 Superbowl.

Next up is tvguide.com. Search for “superbowl” there and you’ll get:

• Superbowl Smash 2006
• Superbowl Preview*: * 2008

Hey, Superbowl Preview 2008, right there! But when you click on it you’re informed that it won’t be on in the next 14 days, either.

On to zap2it. Search for superbowl, click on TV listings, and voila: they have no results whatsoever.

AOL TV has 24 results (only 20 of which are displayed on the page, with no link to a page with the other 4). Of the 20, there’s one that refers to Superbowl XLII. Success? Alas.

Finally! The site with the 7th result for “tv listings” has the answer: “Sports on TV – USATODAY” indicates it is on after the “pre-game show”, which ends at 6PM. Eastern time.

Phew.

I think I should hand out dpk.net Alexa ranking t-shirts at the next convention.

I may or may not agree to the terms of the license, but I flat out refuse to agree to the use of a font that has an obvious gender.

You know how companies will register domains for products they plan to sell in the future? It looks like they just registered “networksolutionsclubscutelittlebabyseals.com”. The poor baby seals. :(

   Domain Name: NETWORKSOLUTIONSCLUBSCUTELITTLEBABYSEALS.COM

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
      Network Solutions, LLC            domainsupport@networksolutions.com
      13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
      HERNDON, VA 20171
      US
      1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620

   Record expires on 08-Jan-2009.
   Record created on 08-Jan-2008.

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We received reports of an unfamiliar error message, and I searched for it on Google: “We’re sorry, this data is no longer available”. There were no results. Surprisingly, their “Did you mean” suggestion using the word “We’are” had no results either!