A computer-science student at Algoma University recently became the first person to create a system that routes data over bongo drums. See that picture above? That’s basically how it works. You type an internet command into one computer, and the software translates it into a set of bongo-drum beats — which the computer whacks out on the drums, using electrically-powered sticks. The second computer listens to the bongo pattern, then translates the commands back into computer-speak, and executes the command.

Now we know what to do during the next blackout.

(Thanks to Slashdot for finding this one!)