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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Has Bell Invented a "Telegraph Killer"?

2009 Nov 23, 1:24"This week Bell Labs plans to roll out the Telephone, the first viable Telegraph alternative, but reports indicate they may not be ready."PermalinkCommentsvia:waxy humor telephone telegraph internet

whocalled.us

2009 Apr 20, 3:14This site does user generated reports on (mostly) spam phone numbers. They have a RESTful API to get at that data too! I'm looking for more like this.PermalinkCommentsapi phone spam search reference telemarketing telephone lookup

Epeus' epigone: Fear of the new - the Internet, Tea, and MapReduce

2008 Sep 8, 10:26"This is what I call the "cup of tea" problem, after Douglas Adams: Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.' They don't bother to mention when criminals use the telephone or the M4, or discuss their dastardly plans 'over a cup of tea,' though each of these was new and controversial in their day."PermalinkCommentsinternet security humor douglas-adams via:sambrook

Cram this: a firsthand account of my recent cramming: Page 1

2008 May 30, 10:02'What happened to me (and what happens to thousands of others each month) is known as "cramming." The [FTC] calls this "the practice of placing unauthorized, misleading, or deceptive charges on your telephone bill...'PermalinkCommentsarticle cramming security marketing

Tech support from the 1930s: How to use a phone

2008 Apr 30, 12:03"But once upon a time telephones were fiendishly complicated devices that required instructional videos like these!"PermalinkCommentshistory video education phone

Wired 14.04: The Culture War

2008 Apr 8, 1:52"The Culture War: How new media keeps corrupting our children." Article snippets condemning novels in 1700s, the Waltz 1800s, Movies, Telephone, etc etc. for corrupting the youthPermalinkCommentsarticle wired videogames culture youth media censorship comic politics history humor

The Afterlife of Cellphones - Cellular Telephone - Waste Materials - Recycling - New York Times

2008 Jan 25, 1:49Article on consumer electronics waste, recycling, and associated companies.PermalinkCommentsvia:ethan_t_hein article electronics recycle nytimes cellphone phone
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