Found this interesting piece while checking some screen pics of Google wifi (at the bottom of the article)
<quote> One of the projects involved blogging pigeons. Pigeons that had transponders and were collecting pollution & temperature data during the festival and sending the data to a live blog. Now since Google owns Blogger and there's a standing joke about Pigeon Rank, why in the heck didn't Google have anything to do with that project? Seems like a no-brainer to me but who knows?! </quote> http://www.google.com/technology/pigeon_system.jpg
I'm sure the orignal author didn't mean this, but if pollution (which smells) = "rank" (ie a rank smell) and this information is collected by pigeons, you have Pigeon Rank :)-
Link: http://www.marketingshift.com/2006/8/google-wifi-exclusive-screenshots.cfm http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html |
I guess it was an April Fool's joke |
inferno – It was an April Fools joke. When I wrote this initially I was in a pretty sleep deprived state. Now that I'm looking at it again, it's not as funny :)- |