Santa Monica man breaks the Internet with web video!

I always joke about how I "broke the Internet" when I freeze my computer by trying to open too many sites at once while watching old "Happy Days" runs on YouTube. Now, apparently, some hapless Santa Monica professor really did break the Internet -- in Myanmar! Well, kinda. According to this Reuters Canada story, one Santa Monica College porfessor's actions caused the government junta to shut down Internet access there. Here's an excerpt:

A Los Angeles academic may have been a driving force behind the move by Myanmar's 19-year-old dictatorship to shut down Internet access after bloggers posted images of soldiers killing civilians.

The images included footage of a Japanese photographer for the Agence France Presse shot dead at point-blank range by a soldier chasing demonstrators.

Civilians and Buddhist monks began peaceful protests in August against a steep surprise fuel price hike in Yangon, also known as Rangoon, the capital of the country formerly known as Burma.

The government has since admitted responsibility for the death of the journalist Kenji Nagai.

A video of Nagai's killing on September 27 was sent to Ryan McMillen, a professor of history at Santa Monica College, who then uploaded it to the I-Reporter service on CNN.com.