Or the importance of a high-fibre diet…

I can’t quite believe this;

Google’s April Fools joke last year;

Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines.

(Excuse the overly-wide image/inflexible blog theme;)

From BBC News today;

UK homes to get super-fast fibre

The UK’s first “fibre town” could go online in the autumn, delivering speeds of about 100Mbps (megabits per second) to consumers’ homes.
Fibre firm H20 provides super-fast broadband via the sewers and either Bournemouth, Northampton or Dundee will be offered the service first.
The service will be delivered to individual homes via a four-inch box attached to the house.
It will also serve local businesses and council services.
Bournemouth, Northampton and Dundee have been selected because H20 has already installed its fibre service to local council buildings.
The fact that the sewer-based fibre takes advantage of existing ducting means there is no need for expensive and disruptive road digging, making the system faster and cheaper to deliver.
“While deploying traditional fibre over a two-kilometre area would be six to 12 months in the planning. We can do it in four hours,” said Mr Thomas.
Mr Thomas said the sewers solution was a lot cheaper than the conventional route of digging up roads.

A case of life imitating (f)art?

(Sorry…)