Visit the ABC.com website Thursday and you'll see the faux old-school terminal interface shown above. The box on the right side of the page tries to load a video player, then spits out a string of errors. A few seconds later, the whole page refreshes and you're redirected to the regular ABC.com site.
This little prank was devised to promote the premiere of ABC's newest show, Life on Mars. It's the story of an NYPD cop who loses consciousness and wakes up in 1973. The show stars Harvey Keitel, the fetching Gretchen Mol and Chrissy from The Sopranos.
No idea if the show is a drama or a comedy (we'll tell you tomorrow), but somebody at ABC has a sick sense of humor -- the entire "terminal" interface is built in Flash.
