Yahoouch! Yahoo’s Laser Time Capsule
Yahoo is collecting digital media for a laser time capsule which will be beamed into the past and the future - the “past” being an ancient pyramid in Mexico and the “future” being space. What genius dreamed that up? Hmm, what’s more futuristic than outer space? And something ancient… I know, a pyramid! Yahoo is clearly meant to be “the present,” but that one’s not quite so obvious. Google easily overshadowed Yahoo’s ridiculous publicity stunt with a simple takeover of YouTube. But if you’re like me and still want your picture lasered onto the ommotidia of some poor helpless extraterrestrial’s compound eye, you can submit it to the time capsule here.
Christian said,
October 11, 2006 @ 3:41 pm
Space + laser + pyramid = less crazy than buying YouTube for $1.6 million.
You can quote me on that, I don’t mind being wrong
(Great post, btw!)
monkey said,
October 11, 2006 @ 7:16 pm
Not a bad point. Except it was $1.6 BILLION for YouTube, which is in fact pretty ridicuous. For some reason, I feel like Google knows what it’s doing. And if Google goes down, there’s always Clusty! (Unless that’s owned by Google. I don’t think it is, but it’s too damned hard to figure out these days. Maybe Google will buy Clusty next week for eighty quadrillion pesos.)
monkey said,
October 11, 2006 @ 7:17 pm
(and thanks, btw!)
shannon rock said,
October 26, 2006 @ 3:37 pm
well I checked out the comments on the time campsule. I suppose there going for diversity. I didn’t read one comment that was universal. There were men cursing white men, people praising allah, and people’s pictures of themselves for the “what’s beautiful” section. Hardly anyone used correct grammer, which you should for a time capsule unless you want future generations to think we were stupid. I’m kind of embarrassed. I hope no alien finds the one we shoot into space.