Google introduces free wireless broadband via your toilet
Stephen Warley April 1st, 2007
Google has just announced it will offer free wireless broadband access to anyone with a computer and a toilet. (Yes, you are reading that correctly.) I’m from Boston, so you know how susceptible we are to hoaxes (it is April Fool’s Day after all). Can this really be true?? I’m not sure what is making me more skeptical, that Google is really offering all of us free broadband access or they have found a way to turn raw sewage into gold. I’m sure you’ve got questions, so Google is ready with some answers. So who is going to give this a try and report back to LR? Has Google gone too far or am I even having trouble appreciating their brilliance? Let the jokes fly my friends . . .
9 Comments Add your own
1. invitedmedia | April 1st, 2007 at 8:29 am
the little guy with google goggles and snorkel is a nice touch as are the yellow gloves in the box of farts…. i mean parts.
2. Don Day | April 1st, 2007 at 9:26 am
Oh how I love this day.
3. Dave | April 1st, 2007 at 11:03 am
At least for today, I love Google.
Tomorrow, they’re back to being big business Walmart in my eyes.
4. Safran | April 1st, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Police in Boston are shutting down the city as the respond to reports of suspicious, possibly terrorist-related poop.
5. flotsam | April 1st, 2007 at 2:07 pm
quick. get the old [and still fall down funny] BBC special report on spaghetti farming in italy. it was broadast for the first time, as i recall, on an april first.
6. invitedmedia | April 1st, 2007 at 2:26 pm
this gives new meaning to the old term “open a new window”.
7. Safran | April 1st, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Click on my name to go to the BBC page with the Spaghetti Harvest video. The video quality is a lousy 35 kbps, but you’ll get the idea - and there’s a great writeup about how it was done. This marks the 50th anniversary of one of the all-time great British pranks.
8. Ian Taylor | April 2nd, 2007 at 10:52 am
I amost went through the MOTIONS on this offer!
9. Peter L | April 2nd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
How dumb was I. I was trying to find the address to sign up but couldn’t find one!
I was thinking that it was probably something only available in the states and not the UK and later thought it was jubious that there wasn’t an address to write to!
Also I should have realized that dumping on a set of wires wouldn’t catch on too quickly!
Something for next April: Sewer rats with batteries in used as wireless mice?what do you think?
Love and peace!
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