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ooooooooside 2007-10-31 and 2007-12-06 between 0000-00-00 and 9999-99-99

Seen at the bottom of an email from my Mum & Dad, just before the Yahoo! mail tagline:

ooooooooside 2007-10-31 and 2007-12-06 between 0000-00-00 and 9999-99-99

A Google search reveals that indeed this message does pop up from time to time. My guess is that it is generated by a code library and is meant to be some sort of debugging information… but I could be wrong.

Have you seen this? What does it mean? Where does it come from? Please help!

Update: Yahoo! have stated the problem is a technical issue.

“Sorry, the universe you are trying to access does not exist.”

Using my preferred feed reader Netvibes this morning, I was greeted with the following message, funnily enough after clicking an article about black holes

Sorry

I guess the New Scientist RSS feed contained an inter-universal URL… what’s the syntax for that again? I don’t know, but all this multiverse thinking is making my head hurt. Maybe it’s time to switch to Google Reader instead.