[amirhirsch]

This is cool and informative and Kurt's writing is great:

The briny deeps are filled with undersea cables, crying out constantly to nearby ships: "drive through me"! Land isn't much better, as the old networkers shanty goes: "backhoe, backhoe, digging deep — make the backbone go to sleep".

[tptacek]

We can't take credit for the backhoe thing; that really is an old networking shanty.