Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service!!!!!!!

[mandy]

Google's new TiSP Wireless Broadband site: http://www.google.com/tisp/ 

Sign up for our free in-home wireless broadband service

Sick of paying for broadband that you have to, well, pay for?

Introducing Google TiSP (BETA), our new FREE in-home wireless broadband service. Sign up today and we'll send you your TiSP self-installation kit, which includes setup guide, fiber-optic cable, spindle, wireless router and installation CD.

TiSP in-home wireless broadband is:

    * Free, fast and highly reliable
    * Easy to install -- takes just minutes
    * Vacuum-sealed to prevent water damage

from the press release:

Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

"Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you."

For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. "There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC."...

full press release: http://www.google.com/tisp/press.html

How TiSP works (with photos): http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
The FAQ: http://www.google.com/tisp/faq.html

[jezebel]

[regic]

our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC.

[bargainbloodhound]

Wikipedia has an article on Google's April Fool's Day jokes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes