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Friday, February 2, 2007

Okay, these are all crazy links that almost have a theme.
Well, if you count that I found them all amusing, I guess that could be a theme.
Hey, at least they’re funny!
First, there’s chicks noodling. Now, if you aren’t familiar with noodling, that’d be bare-handed catfish fishing. No rod or reel, just you and the catfish, [...]

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Cell Phone Localization

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

You’d think this belongs on my other blog, which is tech oriented, but…
Well, okay, it probably belongs there, too. Wired News ran this story about the efforts of researchers to localize cell phones for Ethiopia last week. It’s interesting to me for a number of reasons.
First, there’s the “alphabet”, which is actually a [...]

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Bone Phone

Tuesday, February 3, 2004

He said “bone”, heh, heh, heh…
Yep, “bone phone”. According to this article on AustrailianIT, Sanyo has built a phone that “…transmits sounds through vibrations that move from the skull to the cochlea in the inner ear, instead of relying on the usual method of sound hitting the outer eardrum.” Apparently, it’s quite good [...]

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Phone Number for Life?

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Starting yesterday you can keep your cell number when you change plans.
At least, in some metropolitan areas. The rest follow on May 24th. Unfortunately, the article on Wired News doesn’t say which areas start getting this option today. Still, it’s nice to know. I know that I have hesitated to change [...]

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Divorce by Cell Phone?

Sunday, August 17, 2003

Well, it’s going to be banned in Malaysia.
At least, according to this article on Australia IT, it’s going to be banned. Malaysia is a very Islamic country and, in their religious tradition, a man can divorce his wife by saying “I divorce you” to her three times in a public place. Well, apparently, [...]

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