FishPhone

Speaking of phones, check out FishPhone.

In their words:

"FishPhone is Blue Ocean’s sustainable seafood text messaging service that instantly puts sustainable seafood information at your fingertips.

To find out about your seafood choice, text 30644 with the message FISH and the name of the fish in question. We’ll text you back with our assessment and better alternatives to fish with significant environmental concerns.

Since its debut on October 2, 2007, FishPhone has been featured nationwide in newspapers, on television (including MSNBC), and on blogs.

“Having this information in the palm of our hands while we shop or visit our local restaurants is the start of something big! We consumers have many questions, especially as the USDA and FDA seem so overworked, under-funded and ineffectual when it comes to food safety issues; using our handheld devices to connect to the most up to date info in real time makes us the 'commanders' of our food shopping experience.”  – Phil Lempert, TODAY Food Editor on MSNBC.com"

I used to intern here and I helped minimally in the creation/implementation of FishPhone. My most significant contribution was that I thought of the name, haha.

Phones in the Library

I'm supposed to be working on a paper for my film class right now (almost done writing the first draft) but I have to get something off my chest that I've kept pent up inside for too long.

Why, oh why, do people talk on cell phones in stairwells? Especially in the library! On a Sunday! Do you believe this area to be at all private? Is it always a misguided attempt to separate yourself from those who are actually working in the library that leads you to this totally public arena? Are you purposefully talking on the phone in there so that people THINK you're having a private conversation when in fact you are trying to have people eavesdrop as a sort of quasi-facetime?

Well, you're dumb. If you're going to talk on the phone, go to FFB or Novack. Take a walk outside. Go in the bathroom, for God's sake. Don't sit on a windowsill in the stairwell and think you're accomplishing anything at all. You're dumb and incredibly distracting. We can all hear you here on 3FB. All of us.

Say hi to your mom for me.