China: Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting

GIZMODO ^ | 08/11/08

[TigerLikesRooster]

Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird's Nest
During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting

Well this is just perfect. At the exact moment Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax, someone snapped this photo of our good friend the BSOD nestled amongst the Nest's steel twigs. Perhaps an Opening Cermonies IT dude spit out his coffee on the machines in the server room when Li took to the sky? Another question is what a projection screen is doing inside the Nest at that location, but I think the better question is what wasn't going on inside the Nest's roof—did you see that thing during the ceremonies? Lights! Fireworks! LED screens! Everything! Anyway, if only one image of this perfectness existed we'd be skeptical, but thankfully, someone has grabbed more from a different angle that pretty much seal the deal.

UPDATE: And it's been confirmed on the NBC broadcast by commenter cirby on his DVR.

Click for high-res:

Ouch! More super-zoomed images for error message decoding here:
[Powerapple Forum (Chinese, original pic), and Rivercool (alternate angle pics) via Dvorak - props to Dvorak commenter Improbus for "Olympic Fail"]

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[snowrip]

D’oh!

[BellStar]

Decoding ping,

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

So freakin’ what!!! Must be a chi-com plot right?

[ikka]

Any XP user knows that screen! Maybe the Chinese were trying to reach out to the XP proletariat around the world...

[GreenAccord]

Did someone crick Contror-Art-Derete?

[Blueflag]

Microsoft should inquire as to whether the license is valid, or ‘locally copied’. ahem ........

But never ask a legal question of which you don’t already know the answer.

[Michael Barnes]

I’m seriously surprised they were not using red flag linux.

[screaminsunshine]

For some reason I have absolutly no intrest in the olympics. Zero none.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Maybe you only care about BSoD.:-)

[corkoman]

ha - not sho shmart!

[reagan_fanatic]

LOL

[McGruff]

Now that is funny. The Mac and Linux crowd be be pleased.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Now that is funny. The Mac and Linux crowd be be pleased.

Let's see...

[NCjim]

Ping

[Kirkwood]

Should have used Vista.

[ShadowAce]

[Carley]

Being completely uninformed on just about all things tech.

Can this be explained in simple terms so that this dummie can understand what happened.

Please, and of course, merci!

[politicalwit]

Any XP user knows that screen!

Been using XP Professional and Home since 2000. Never seen the BSOD.