Like watching a Rube Goldberg machine

An earlier post from this blog was covered in WIRED magazine's website yesterday and has proven pretty poopular, I mean POPular.  When I checked in this morning it had been tweeted over 300 times and stimultaed an interesting discussion on their comments page about zoos and aquariums with respect to the size of the animals being kept.  Watching how a story which had attracted a few dozen hits here spreading out from a major news source by Digg and Reddit and Twitter is like watching some kind of scoial Rube Goldberg machine unfolding its wacky design in front of you; its a fascinating experiment in social media.  Here's some of the Tweets and comments that made me smile:

"OK, nobody go into the Gulf of Mexico for a while…" (tah22400, on Wired)

"that is a really big Baby Ruth!" (Samagon, on Wired)
“Well…shit” (Delahaya, on Wired)

"Activities at the 'other' end are equally behemoth" (g1t0 on Twitter)

"This is why I dont swim behind ANYTHING" (SurferDave2010 on Twitter)

"Science finally getting its priorities straight" (will tan on Twitter)

"Poop jokes never get old" (SIlverAntigen on Twitter)