Here’s a really really long text message, an apparent attempt to recruit Helga Weber, a blogger and designer from the Philippines:

Hello! Greetings!!!:-)
My name is [redacted], Marketing Officer for [redacted] ([redacted]).
I would just like to take this bold opportunity to announce this WONDERFUL NEWS about a RARE PROMO OFFER for a FULLY-FUNCTIONAL website development service that we would like to provide you for your competitive business need to GAIN A STRONG POSITION in the industry, as well as to REALIZE/MATERIALIZE today’s untapped potential markets. For ONLY PhP 30,000, our Web Development Team shall ensure your PROMINENCE and UNMATCHED OUTPUT CALIBER, which …read more

A growing number of psychiatrists and doctors are worrying about the effects of constant texting on the youth, according to The New York Times:

[they] say it is leading to anxiety, distraction in school, falling grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep deprivation.
Dr. Martin Joffe, a pediatrician in Greenbrae, Calif., recently surveyed students at two local high schools and said he found that many were routinely sending hundreds of texts every day.
Personally, I disagree. Obviously, there are some bad cases like that of Reina Hardesty. The article featured her one-month of 14,523 texts, and related her academic problems caused by an actual …read more

According to the most recent reports, one minute before the collision, the engineer responsible for the crash sent a text message from his cell phone, apparently just one of several messages that had been exchanged between him and two teenagers before the disaster.
The National Transportation Safety Board has reportedly contacted the two 14-year-old boys, who’ve admitted exchanging text messages with the train engineer. Although the name of the engineer has not been made public, he is believed to be responsible for the accident, which resulted in 25 fatalities, including him.
Scary. Maybe we’ll be sticking to flights over the water, where …read more