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July 15, 2006
Send me an Internet, please
For your Saturday night dance party: "It's a Series of Tubes," a mashup remix (mp3) of Sen. Ted Stevens' metaphor for the Internet, and how his staff "sent him an Internet the other day."
Wired's backstory is here.
If Ted Stevens is chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology, I fear for our democracy.
(Via Chris Carfi.)
Update: It didn't take long, but it seeemed inevitable: "The Internet is a Series of Tubes" has become a meme of irony.
VeeDub points out that some fast-thinking entrepreneurs are using the trucks vs. tubes comparison to create t-shirts on CafePress.
Someone created a hilarious full-screen loop.
13tongimp created a music video to accompany the song mentioned above.
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Thanks for the plug guys. I had fun making the video and I'm pleased to see that people like it. I hope that it can draw some attention to the issue of Net Neutrality.
