This meant that the best place to post a silly review was on a page devoted to a less wellknown book The Story about Ping a classic childrens work that tells the story of a duck called Ping was the inspiration for much geek humour because ping also happened to be the name of a software utility used to measure the degree of congestion on the Internet One lengthy review constructed an elaborate analogy between the books plot and the architecture of the Internet and concluded that the book provided a good highlevel overview of basic networking concepts