Don't you get tired of all those little 'valid' buttons claiming that the website you're visiting passes validation for protocol x,y, or z? Why should you care? It should be QA's responsibility to worry about whether or not the software validates to the applicable specifications, not yours. Unless of course it is the website owner's way of telling you that it's up to you to verify their code because they can't be bothered with it. Or perhaps for bragging rights. Either way I think it's a bit arrogant. "Hey, our pages aren't broken....". Who cares anyway? If they're broken, you won't be able to read 'em to find out that they aren't supposed to be broken.  So it kind of defeats the purpose. 

In fact, as I've found on this site, just because you're compliant on one day, you might not be tomorrow. I find it a little irresponsible that web specs are allowed to change without notice. That certainly wasn't the case when I was trying to write standards compliant software.

If, like me, you mostly find this amusing, I've got some buttons for you. Put 'em on your website.

Now you too can be compliant with all the latest acronyms. And you can ask your local admin - 'Are you GQX2.3 compliant? What about NORK2?' Huh? You will no doubt cause them a huge amount of emotional distress as they search the web to find out what is required to be GQX2.3 compliant. The nice thing is that your website is in fact compliant, so you can wear these badges with honor.

Give me a day or two and I might be able to come up with a NORK2 validator if you really want to mess with their heads. It will validate any page which has a nork valid image link on it and will fail with unspecified errors any page which doesn't. 

Syntax error on line 1. Illegal command 'DOCTYPE'.
Syntax error on line 2. Invalid or obsolete tag 'html'.  
Script type 'javascript' is not legal in NORK2. Please use 'carrotscript'
 or a transcendant document format instead.
'<title>' is deprecated in NORK2 without 'region=' specifier.
Action cancelled. Too many errors. 

...Isn't that wicked?

PS> In researching this article, I discovered what your local admin is going to discover, that even if they aren't NORK2 compliant, you can date a NORK girl; and they aren't anywhere near as ugly as Stalingrad babes.  They're also mostly Catholic, so you don't have to struggle with those pesky condoms. Isn't that the cat's meow? Details Here.