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...case of the Mondays” (and wants to beat the crap out of those who use said phrase). Just about everyone has to put up with a Bill Lumbergh-like boss, who incessantly sends memos about asinine things like TPS reports. Just about everyone is frustrated by fax machines and the “PC LOAD LETTER” error message. Just about everyone has a Milton—the deranged loner who is given odd jobs to keep him busy. And just about everyone has a Samir or a Michael Bolton—co-workers who become friends...
...talking about just any pen and paper, of course. To both words, add this century's prefix of choice: digital. The pen "reads" what it writes on the special paper, then transmits this information as e-mail, fax or mobile-phone message. Why bother, I ask, when keyboards are already ubiquitous and so damn easy to use? "There's a reason people still use pen and paper," says Anoto's director of new concepts, Linus Wiebe, with only a hint of admonishment. "It's not because they are stupid or old-fashioned, but because pen and paper are the most...
...paper certainly looks no different from everyday A4; the dots are invisible to the naked eye. On closer examination, there's a narrow panel along the bottom, designated for an e-mail address or fax number. Two small boxes are marked "e-mail" and "fax" and a third, slightly larger, "send...
...who’s really causing these new problems? A knee-jerk reaction would cast blame on those people who have four cell phones, two pagers, a fax line, a modem line and five phone lines in their house. Granted, it might be a bit excessive to have more phone numbers than limbs, but the real problem is that telephone companies waste the phone numbers that are allocated to them by an archaic blocking scheme, dating back more than six decades, that wastes numbers on sparsely-populated rural areas...
Anyone who has actually lost money in the scheme should contact the Secret Service at (202) 406-5850, or fax a copy of the fraudulent e-mail...