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Widow Rented Rotary Phone for 42 Years “A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now outdated phone.” 750,000 people in the US are still leasing their phones from AT&T—if they’re all paying the $29.10 Mrs. Strogen was, that’s more than $260 million a year for the phone company. (via Netscape)

SOAP your friends “Send a free personalized talking Snakes On a Plane message in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson to someone you know.” Weird, but fun. (via Waxy.org)