One of my favorite web sites to check out is the well-known (amongst the initiated) ThinkGeek. My main purpose for going there is to check out the selection of geek approved t-shirts. The t-shirts themselves are relatively straight forward. They're your standard fare cotton t-shirt with a few words or phrases printed on the front and back with the occasional one containing an image or two as well. The thing that sets the ThinkGeek t-shirts apart is what they say.
As a proud owner of the Binary People, Computer Repair, TCP/IP crawler (for my son), and the apparently discontinued "Don't blame me, it's a hardware problem" t-shirts, I'm a very satisfied customer.
The latest introduction in to the ThinkGeek product line had me rolling on the floor with laughter the other day. Just in time for Valetine's Day: HTTPanties.
Geeks are notorious for not taking subtle hints too well or missing what others consider to be meaningful forms of communcation (body language anyone?). Giving us machine readable response codes that are defined in a published, IETF approved standards document is something we can parse and make an intelligent (and predictable) response to. My only question is where the "401 Unauthorized" or request for https:// ones are. Shouldn't we be encouraging secure communications?
Want to let your imagination run a little? Check out the rest of the HTTP response codes.