Weird: Google has notified me that search hits for “joys of feeling stupid” have gone through the roof! 250 search result clicks in a month is a lot, at least for this humble website.

I mean, it was nice blog post, but it is hardly what people are looking for when googling that, I suppose?! Even weirder: “joys of feeling stupid” doesn’t seem to be a comtemporary viral video, song, or article. What gives?

I don’t really know, but that’s okay. Fitting, even – the mystery of “joys of feeling stupid” making me feel… you know. :)

Hacker News featured a link to developer.chrome.com: “Select fields can now be styled” Interesting, let’s click this link! This is what I got:

See: developer.chrome.com/blog/a-customizable-select

Yes, that’s the whole page. Somewhat cool, just: Das Element and nothing else. Maybe the start of a Rammstein song? :) But I did expect to read more on the topic…

That “switch to English” button already gives a hint who’s at fault. The original English version of the page looks intact:

So, a “helpful” auto-translate service strikes again! This time, it’s not focused on mis-translating technical terms, though, but rather messing up the HTML markup… Danke! :)