Meatscapes
September 3, 2008
Mozilla.org: "The Kitchen Sink"
September 3, 2008
Great little easter egg (?) page from mozilla.org with a functional kitchen sink (click the handle)
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/samples/kitchensink.xml
about:internets (Google Chrome Easter Egg)
September 3, 2008
Heh. Nice one, Google.
To find this little easter egg, enter “about:internets” into the Google Chrome address bar.
…if you missed the reference, check this out:
“Series of tubes” is an analogy used by United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to describe the Internet in the context of network neutrality.[1] On June 28, 2006, he used this metaphor to criticize a proposed amendment to a committee bill. The amendment would have prohibited Internet service providers from charging fees to give some companies higher priority access to their networks or their customers. This metaphor (along with several other odd choices of words) was widely ridiculed as demonstrating Stevens’ poor understanding of the Internet.
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Partial text of Stevens’ comments
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
[...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.[2]





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