Navin R. Johnson's overwhelming joy over his "spontaneous publicity" on page 73 of the phone book may fall on deaf ears to children of the digital age now that Verizon is planning to stop production of the residential White Pages. The state's dominant local phone company asked legislators yesterday to allow them to end their automatic delivery of the directory, which could save up to 5,000 tons of paper a year. One building concierge said, “We end up throwing them away. Everyone goes online anyways." more ›

Now, if only Amazon will develop some sort of ESP-technology that lets us search from vertical positions, they would own our souls. more ›