A Washing Machine has A Twitter Account

[CoasterMatt]

http://sharkbait.computerworld.com/?q=node/3610

This video demonstrates how an enterprising hacker created a Twitter account for his washing machine. When a load of laundry is done, the machine's Twitter account is updated to reflect this completed status.

A lot of effort for a little gained is okay in my book if it has that "cool" factor. But here's where it gets scary:

The washing machine has 555 followers.

More than five hundred people are watching the status of one man's washing machine, waiting to find out when his laundry has completed its spin around the agitator.

[Kevy Baby]

Reminds me of the coffee maker web cam which predated the internet (well, technically not, but the internet that Al Gore invented)

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Reminds me of the coffee maker web cam which predated the internet (well, technically not, but the internet that Al Gore invented)

You do know that he never made such a claim, right?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by JWBear

You do know that he never made such a claim, right?

You seriously went there? Wow.

For the record, no Al Gore did not claim to invent the internet. The exact comment he made in a 1999 Wolf Blitzer interview was "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

No, this is not a claim to have invented the internet. He was simply, albeit quite awkwardly, trying to imply that he played a significant role in bringing the internet to the masses. It was simply campaign rhetoric - something both sides are guilty of.

But it could easily be interpreted that Al Gore is claiming MUCH more responsibility for the evolution of the internet than he actually deserved.

But seriously?

[SacTown Chronic]

You know what AL Gore will get credit for someday? Killing ManBearPig.


There, I said it. One day Al Gore will capture and kill ManBearPig.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

You seriously went there? Wow.

For the record, no Al Gore did not claim to invent the internet. The exact comment he made in a 1999 Wolf Blitzer interview was "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

No, this is not a claim to have invented the internet. He was simply, albeit quite awkwardly, trying to imply that he played a significant role in bringing the internet to the masses. It was simply campaign rhetoric - something both sides are guilty of.

But it could easily be interpreted that Al Gore is claiming MUCH more responsibility for the evolution of the internet than he actually deserved.

But seriously?

Um... But he did play a significant roll. The High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991

Often referred to as the Gore Bill, it was created and introduced by then Senator Albert Gore, Jr.

Gore's legislation also helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser, the commercial Internet's technological springboard. 'If it had been left to private industry, it wouldn't have happened,' Andreessen says of Gore's bill, 'at least, not until years later.'

Yes, seriously.

[Jazzman]

But they just found a bunch of emails proving that ManBearPig is a hoax.

[SacTown Chronic]

Well if Gore didn't invent the internet then the internet doesn't exist. Without the internet, all e-mails are fake because e-mail doesn't exist. So any e-mails showing that ManBearPig is a hoax are obviously a hoax. Proving, without a doubt, that ManBearPig exists.

[BarTopDancer]

OHNOEZ!!!11!!11!!!1 Al Gore didn't invent the interwebs?!?!?!?

But my motherz brotherz neighborz daughterz babysitter swears that he did!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I read it in an email on the interwebs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And everything on the interwebs is trueeeeeeeee.

Next thing you'll tell me is NYE will be alcohol & bacon free>!!>>>!>!>!>!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[alphabassettgrrl]

My dad was so proud of himself the day he found the coffee-maker webcam.