GeoIP
by Jeff
Image text: 'Meet hot young singles in your mom's basement today'? Man, screw you, GeoIP.
GeoIP does exactly what it sounds like it does, which is get your location based on your IP address, mostly to show trashy advertisments with your location thrown in at random. I'm not sure who those ads are fooling, but I'm sure it is someone.
Anyhow, the characters in the comic are in "low-earth orbit" in the International Space Station. So, the joke is, that is where GeoIP would pinpoint them in low-earth orbit instead of a city or state location.
The joke in the image text is a riff on the famous "blogger's live in their mother's basement" joke. Which, in the image text is apparently true, but because the "writer" of the image text is pissed that GeoIP got his location correct down to the fact that he lived in the basement. And of course, it is entirely untrue that blogger's live in their mother's basement!
But, now I smell some eggs and bacon coming from the kitchen upstairs! Gotta go!
March 13th, 2010
Actually, I understand it a bit differently. They downloaded their location into the GeoIP database, so that everyone around the world would appear to be in low orbit (or alternately, in your mom’s basement).
Personally, I think a DND database would be more interesting. “Meet Local Girls in the Lowest Pits of Zombie Hell…Chat Live”.:-)
March 22nd, 2010
Helpful and witty, thanks