June 20th, 2006
On June 12, I commented on the news story about cell phone ringtones (known as Mosquito tones) that only teenagers could hear. In the current issue of The New Yorker, Louis Menand has a wonderful commentary on the subject. As Menand points out, “Well, first of all, who wants to hear someone else’s cell phone? … The Mosquito tone is one of those things you’re better off not knowing. The world is probably full of such things (though how would you know?). Maybe the area of a triangle isn’t that important, either.”
