More Internet Strangeness From Senator Ted Stevens

Posted on February 23, 2007

More Internet strangeness has been discovered about Senator Ted Stevens. Senator Ted Stevens is the Senator who explained that the Internet "is not a big truck." Instead it's a "series of tubes." The tubes video is here. There's also a techno remix if you prefer. The latest web oddity from Senator Stevens has to do with a very unusual warning message on the Senator's campaign website that is shown to people who do not enter the password correctly. Mary Ann Akers at The Sleuth explains:

"Through a series of highly sophisticated and complex algorithms, this system has determined that you are not presently authorized to use this system function. It could be that you simply mistyped a password, or, it could be that you are some sort of interplanetary alien-being that has no hands and, thus, cannot type." (See screenshot on 2nd page of this post.)
But wait, it gets even weirder:
"If I were a gambler, I would bet that a cat (an orange tabby named Sierra or Harley) somehow jumped onto your keyboard and forgot some of the more important pointers from those typing lessons you paid for. Based on the actual error encountered, I would guess that the feline in question simply forgot to place one or both paws on the appropriate home keys before starting. Then again, I suppose it could have been a keyboard error caused by some form of cosmic radiation; this would fit nicely with my interplanetary alien-being theory."

It sounds like the webmaster running Senator Ted Stevens' site might have a geeky sense of humor. Journalist Mary Ann Akers tried to find out how the message got there but no one, including Stevens spokesman Aaron Saunders, could explain it.