Wired reports on the arrival of flash mobs — “performance art projects involving large groups of people. Mobilized by e-mail, a mob suddenly materializes in a public place, acts out according to some loose instructions, and then melts away as quickly as it formed”. Last Wednesday a mob turned up at the Grand Hyatt … Read more
Mobile phones make you rude From the excellent Techdirt website, a collection of stories about how rude we are getting with our mobile phones: “Yet another study about mobile phone rudeness (going along with the one we posted earlier this week has determined that a stunning 71% of people are now consistently late … Read more
Further to my note on the interesting news toolbar ToolButton. I’ve heard back from ToolButton Inc’s Deb Alloway on the issue of privacy, and here’s her answer: “While a user has the ToolButton toolbar installed we collect stats on the activity of their ToolButton toolbar. For example, we will know which buttons they have … Read more
Another way of getting news I’ve talked ad nauseam about RSS feeds — a method of getting you snippets of news and whatnot but not clogging your inbox, or exposing you to more spam — but if you find it all a bit fiddly, you might want to try this option. ToolButton Inc. … Read more
The chips are down Unsurprisingly, computer printer cartridges are more expensive than vintage champagne. An investigation by British consumer group Which? published yesterday found that “Epson inkjet cartridges stopped printing even though in some cases there was enough ink to print over a third more pages”. Here’s the full press release: “Many … Read more