When the network returns to normal, send this follow-up message:
"To all users: The Soyuz capsule was able to retrieve the tapes and restore the WWW. Thank you, Russians! Three cheers for the cosmonauts!"
With RFC 1149 firmly standardizing the protocol of carrier pigeons, it was only a matter of time before someone took this notion of harnessing animal power to the next level. Here's a new one found on the Web:
"The Otherpower.com staff thought of building a hamster-powered night-light a couple of years ago at a rather, uh, soused company Christmas party. Then recently, Analise, an eighth-grader from Albuquerque, N.M., contacted DanF through the AllExperts.com Science For Kids forum, asking, 'Can a rodent generate enough electricity to power a light by running on its wheel?' That was enough inspiration for us to start the project, and we soon added Skippy the Hamster to the Otherpower.com payroll."
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