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Monday, October 6. 2008

The Simpsons Tackles Cell Phone Tracking

Last night's new episode of the cartoon series has Bart longing for and eventually receiving a cell phone. Unknown to him initially, Mom Marge turns on the tracking feature. Then Bart cleverly has the family track, well, something else. It's a clever episode and I found it fun to try to identify the technical slips in the presentation (that might be fun for a technology class, too). Also fun: the cartoon implementation of a Google Earth-like "zoom to the location of interest" tool used throughout the story.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Satellite Navigation at 07:08 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Full story of the episode:
http://firefox.org/news/articles/2062/1/Review----The-Simpsons-quotLost-Verizonquot/Page1.html
#1 Friend on 2008-10-07 09:25 (Reply)
Full episodes with Bart and his crazy family can be found here
http://www.ovpedia.com/watch_the_simpsons_online.php
and it's free.
#1.1 Jack (Link) on 2008-12-03 16:32 (Reply)

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