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The Pay Phone Project "It started as an art project. Blue spiral notebook in hand, Mark Thomas spent afternoons walking the streets of Manhattan, compiling the numbers and locations of public pay phones. He posted them on his Web site in the hope that people would call them. "There is real beauty in whimsical acts of contact between strangers," he explained. Soon his list expanded to include public phones at the top of the Eiffel Tower, in the basement of the Vatican, in the middle of the Mojave Desert, and at about 450,000 other places around the world. But soon the project changed as panicked e-mail messages started arriving from people who needed to learn the location of a certain pay phone: A mother in rural Texas was desperately looking for her pregnant 15-year-old daughter, who had run away a month earlier and had tried to call home from a pay phone; an anti-pedophile group was racing to find a man who had used a pay phone to arrange a sexual meeting with a young boy; a real estate broker in Phoenix wanted to put an end to the daily calls from a stalker who was threatening to kill him. In an age of cellphone ubiquity, Mr. Thomas's passion for pay phones, while initially little more than fanciful, has thus yielded both entertaining and more urgently practical applications. His Web site, www.payphone-project.com, which gets about 45,000 visitors per month, is one of the only places where people can match an incoming pay phone number to a location. The Web site, he said, has become what the pay phone once was: a lifeline for those in sudden moments of need." - IAN URBINA, New York Times Go to The Pay Phone Project Go and Search the Pay Phone Project

Carabella Goes to College "Heading off to college is a rite of passage for many teens thrust into the adult world of opening bank accounts, managing a budget and shopping for their own groceries. But as a hip Flash game released Wednesday by Privacy Activism points out, newly matriculated students are also entering a world where daily decisions have consequences for their privacy. Players of Carabella Goes to College experience a college-bound girl's first week of school, when she has to make routine choices that determine whether she will be beset by identity thieves, aggressive marketers and hungry profiling software." - Ryan Singel, Wired Magazine Go to Carabella Goes to College Read the article, "Learning to Play the Prying Game"

Star Wars Asciimation ASCII animation, or "asciimation," is the craft of creating ASCII art using common keyboard symbols to represent images, then animating them. From the opening text to Obi-wan setting off to deactivate the tractor beam, you can see Star Wars, Episode IV, from a whole different angle. Creator Simon Jansen has painstakingly recreated the epic movie using asciimation. Go to Star Wars Asciimation View the Death of Jar Jar Binks Read the article, "Star Wars: the 'Asciimation'"