What does your phone number spell?
Plug your phone number into this little engine and it tells you what words your number spells.
You can always call me at pasta-1-why-I.
The science of the finger dance on telephones — why some numbers work better than others.
How to translate touchtone sounds to numbers
Laws ‘Mean’ to Homeless?
The civil rights of homeless Americans are under attack coast-to-coast through laws designed to criminalize homelessness by banning such things as sleeping in public, according to a new report released this week. The report by two homeless advocacy groups said California was the “meanest” state to the homeless, while San Francisco, New York and Atlanta tied as the worst cities for homeless residents. “We looked at the number of laws that are used against the homeless, and the number of infractions cited,” said Paul Boden, director of San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness. “These places create a web of infractions and basically give police the ability to cite people for doing anything other than walking,” Boden said. The report surveyed policies and practices on homelessness in 80 communities ranging from Providence, Rhode Island to Honolulu, Hawaii.
Counting the number of people on the streets is difficult and controversial — the U.S. Census Bureau was cautious about releasing numbers in 2000.
Help Wanted Money Moves to Online
I saw this link on my Poynter pal Romenesko’s site. There is a good story in this for you. How do people find jobs these days?
Marcia Abel used to spend $8,500 a year on help-wanted advertising in the Star Tribune. But in 2001, the human resources director for the Doubletree Hotel in Minneapolis spent all of her advertising budget at online job sites such as Monster.com. “We feel it’s the most cost-effective way to reach our audience,” Abel said. At the dawn of the Internet age, many analysts warned that newspapers could lose a big chunk of their lucrative, $9 billion recruitment advertising business to electronic rivals. Now, after one of the most bruising years in the recent history of the newspaper industry, some wonder whether that day is at hand. Newspaper help-wanted advertising plunged an unprecedented 32 percent, to $5.8 billion, in 2001, according to Charlene Li, an industry analyst with Forrester Research.
