The Longest Distance
BBC News reports on a growing trend of people insisting that they be buried with their cell phones. According to Martin Raymond of The Future Laboratory, the trend started in Capetown South Africa: “In fact, they were asking for the phones to be put into the coffins with them in case they woke up.” In some cases, spare batteries are included.
It’s happening in Australia too, but there it has more to do with people wanting to be buried with the “totems” of their success – expensive suits, jewelry, laptop computers. This kind of burial is also happening in Ireland, Ghana and of course the United States. We’re all rich and crazy here.
I pity today’s archaologists, who are so excited to find a clay jar or an arrowhead among their bones. That ain’t nothin’.
You know who should be taking a cell phone to the grave? Celebrities.
Buck Wolf at ABC News has a fun little round up today of celebrity death hoaxes. The news didn’t make it to me but apparently Will Farrell has been dead for two weeks, the victim of a paragliding accident. Though this is all lies from a hoax press release uploaded to a website, it would still be useful to give Will a mobile, in case he is buried against his… will.
Abe Vigoda, Paul McCartney, Bobby McFerrin and the Taco Bell Chihuahua might also consider carrying a wireless, in case they need to correct the impression that they are supposed to be buried.
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And here on the Podcast Network, Ewan Spense’s The Rock Show distills the previous year’s independent music into a tasty podcast. These people are neither dead nor celebrities, but they do have phones.