technology Inside jokes.

Posted June 27, 2005 • Comments Off on Inside jokes.

Apple.com has a feature I really like called Pro Tips where they put in some tips that are genuinely useful. (There are lots of tips that aren’t; for instance, yes, I did in fact know I could zip files from the context menu). It’s no macosxhints.com, but it’s neat. The problem is that it’s called “Tip of the Week” but hasn’t been updated in at least a month. Bothersome.

So today I was looking at the most recent tip, and I decided to look at the source for the page, to see if it was dated, so I could whine more specifically about the delay. At the bottom of the source code for the page, I found this:

<p class=“sosumi”>Copyright &copy; 2005 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved.</p>

That’s just the grey copyright notice at the bottom of every Apple.com page. But the fact that the css stylesheet for it is called “sosumi” cracked me up. “Sosumi” is the name of one of the original, classic Mac system sounds, one of the few that survived the transition to OS X (unlike the wonderful Wild Eep, for instance). Sosumi sounds like this. It’s a pun on “so sue me,” and its story can be read on Wikipedia here. But the fact that they’re still using it for something as subtle as a css class for their copyright notice is just wonderful.

To me, and, like, four other people.