lab16's Journal: Smoot!

You are probably asking yourself right now, "What is a smoot?". Well, apparently, it is a unit of measurement created by MIT as a prank, and the good people at google decided to make use of it. I learned about it's existence when I was messing with the measuring tool in Google Earth.

I wonder if Google employs a person who's sole job is to put easter eggs like that into all of their programs?

heck

[robi2106]

the engineers do that all by themselves. hehehe I remember spending many hours reading the hacks web page that thinking these were the greatest pranks evah!

jason

smoot

[SolemnDragon]

because i live in boston, i instantly knew what you were talking about.

The city occasionally repaints them, you know, because they've become a city landmark.