How Not To Cook An Egg With A Phone (But Still Create A Viral Hoax Sensation)
from the the-madness-of-blogs dept
David Goldenberg writes "Over the past week, Slashdot, BoingBoing, Digg, and many others have posted a link to a article detailing how to cook an egg using two mobile phones. This story is a hoax. Over at Gelf Magazine, I talked with the article's author, who told me he never expected so many people would take it seriously. It's also a testament to the cyclical power of the internet: He wrote the piece six years ago. Here's a snip: "No other page on the site has grabbed people's attention and ire button as much as this one. What seems to be happening is that it 'travels' from blog to blog, forum to forum. It was big in Australia last year and seems to be big in the US right now." According to Ivermee, the article got almost 50,000 hits during one week in September last year and last week got 18,500 hits. That number is sure to rise even more this week. Why did he write the piece? "It was 6 years ago but I seem to recall that there was a lot of concern about people's brains getting fried and being from a radio/electronics background I found it all rather silly," he writes. "So I thought I'd add to the silliness." "
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I read the blurb on the article and then looked at my cellphone thought about some common sense things and said to myself "No freaking way" and moved on.
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Re: No Subject Given
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humph!
Good thing for Verizon's "IN" program, or I would have a huge fat bill too!
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Ron Popeil
I bet that would sell a lot of phones.
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brainiac
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LOL slashdot
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I fell for this.
IDIOT!!
I blame my mobile phone for frying my brain.
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need MO power
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Re: need MO power
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Sad and scary
People are quick to believe everything they read in a book, see on television, and apparently now, anything blogged or listed on the Internet.
Is it that people are being knowingly or wantonly deceptive by fooling people, no. Its just that the Internet is an outlet for both brilliance and substantially more ignorance. People push their personal opinion onto other people because there is always a ready audience willing to gobble it up.
Unfortunately, not everybody has a good rounded education or simply good common sense to weed through the chaff and find the truths and facts out there. They are quick to promote this ignorance by linking to it on their blogs or listing it in their "news" services.
So, my advice is to take everything seen on the web with a big grain of salt. Even if you find a story corroborated on many other sites, understand that all these sites didn't independently come to the same conclusion, they are all commenting off the same source.
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Minimicrowave
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You can look them up on the FCC database. Half a watt is more like it.
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Gives it another suspicious look and dials yet another number......
Breakfast anyone?
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Re: Minimicrowave BZZZZZZZZT!!!
Microwaves work at the 2.4GHz range - 2450 MHz to be specific - the dielectric heating frequency of water molecules (sugar and fat too).
Here's the wikipedia article if you would care to check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
Thanks for playing though, and proving the point that we shouldn't always believe what we read....
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micro-brains, anyone?
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Time will tell
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Frying an egg with 2 cell phones
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Need A Cooker? USE YOUR CELL PHONE
How Two Russian Journalists Cooked An Egg
With Their Mobile Phones
Many organizations including the cell phone industry often downplay the risk of cell phone radiation to the brain. Results from short-term studies were used to convince consumers that use of a cell phone is not associated with brain tumors or cancer, which only develop decades after exposure.
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Re: micro-brains, anyone?
door with my head in it.
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Re: Re: Minimicrowave BZZZZZZZZT!!!
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Going to do it myself
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