Well, I’ll be. Wired just printed a story admitting that the story they did about toothing (picking up partners for casual sex by sending messages to Bluetooth enabled mobile phones) was a hoax. They even have a link to a blog belonging to one of the people who engineered the hoax. What amazes me is that a search of the BBC news site doesn’t produce any results at all. I wonder if they saw the story and decided it wasn’t true or just didn’t notice it in the first place, or maybe they did do the story and have just deleted it rather than print a retraction.
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ryc: thanks for coming by. what you commented reminded me about the incomprehensible dynamics that exist between God and man… man and man. what a big, yet small, world we live in!
Thanks for that link anonymous benefactor. I should have known it was too good to be true. Those poor saps at News Online were just bound to fall for it. I suppose I was just being too optimistic.