“The Argentinian opera star who was nearly arrested after throwing a tantrum at an Upper West Side restaurant had her day in court yesterday. Soprano Gabriela Pochinki had been carrying on a noisy cell phone conversation via speakerphone at restaurant Nice Matin when a manager asked her to pipe down. When Pochinki blew her off, the manager asked her to leave—four times, and then Pochinki allegedly flew into a rage, shoved her, and refused to pay her bill.”
The World Health Organization is about to reveal that its decade-long investigation has found the devices can lead to cancer — and the internationally-respected body will soon issue a public health message with its findings, London’s Daily Telegraph reported today.
The conclusion goes against years of assurances by cell phone companies and scientists that cell phone use is safe.
Chocolate love (by LG)
Fetishistic cellphonage (LG - SNSD Chocolate Love MV)
“SMSing about how many bears I just saw”
Folsom S&M Street Fair (via wikoerner)
Dear Diary: I have a cellular phone plan that includes “whenever minutes.” This is a chuckle to me, because no minutes are “whenever”—they are precisely now, and in fact they are already gone. via Werner Herzog’s diary ( http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/spoofs_satire/be_not_afraid.php)
David Choe
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“In the past 13 months, police across the state have issued an estimated 250,000 tickets for violating the cell phone law. Still, officers and motorists alike have spotted plenty of drivers using a handheld phone.
Joe Wicker, a retired San Jose traffic officer, said he saw a woman on Meridian Avenue dealing with an iPod in one hand and texting with the other — with an infant in the back seat.
“If only I still had my ticket book,” Wicker said.”
Morton Feldman and John Cage
- Morton Feldman: Well, this weekend I was on the beach.
- John Cage: Yes.
- MF: … And on the beach these days are transistor radios.
- JC: Yes.
- MF: … blaring out rock ‘n’ roll.
- JC: Yes.
- MF: All over.
- JC: Yes. And you didn’t enjoy it?
- MF: Not particularly. I adjusted to it.
- JC: How?
- MF: By saying that… Well, I thought of the sun and the sea as a lesser evil.
- JC: You know how I adjusted to that problem of the radio in the environment? Very much as the primitive people adjusted to the animals which frightened them, and which, probably as you say, were intrusions. They drew pictures of them on their caves. And so I simply made a piece using radios. Now, whenever I hear radios – even a single one, not just twelve at a time, as you must have heard on the beach, at least – I think, “Well, they’re just playing my piece.”
“In May, 84 phones were found throughout the prison system, the most for a single month. Two-thirds of those phones were found in a sweep at Hope Hall, a halfway house in Camden, Corrections spokesman Matt Schuman said.
East Jersey State Prison in Avenel led in drug seizures, with 52 from August 2008 to July of this year. South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton had the most non-drug contraband seizures: 734 in the same period.
According to records, officers are finding cell phones more often than drugs.”
Prisons scramble to crack down on illegal cell phones - NJ.com
“Just some poppin’ fresh technology”
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