[IP] Phone throwing

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:53:38 +0200
> From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@iconia.com>
> Subject: Phone throwing
> To: Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber <dave@farber.net>
>
> Phone throwing
> Published: August 26 2003 5:00 | Last Updated: August 26 2003 5:00
> The Financial Times
>
> While the world's top track-and-field athletes gathered in Paris for the
> start of the world championships, 89 lesser-known competitors from nine
> countries spent their weekend throwing mobile phones in Savonlinna,
> south-east Finland.
>
> Qualification for the event consisted not of heats but explaining why they
> were unhappy enough with their mobile phone to want to throw it as far as
> possible.
>
> Disappointingly, the woes of the telecommunications industry didn't prompt
> any frustrated chief executive to take part. And in Nokia's homeland, the
> winner of the event - with a throw of 66.62m, just 10cm short of the world
> record (yes, there is one) - was, of course, a Finn.
>
> http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c
> =StoryFT&cid=1059479316943&p=1012571727260&ExpIgnore=true
>
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