I bumped into these brilliant sites today:
Popularity Dialler (http://popularitydialer.com/); and
PhoneMyPhone (http://www.phonemyphone.com/).
Each of them call your phone for you at a scheduled time to provide a phone interruption when you anticipate being bored-to-death in meetings or any of the other horrendous forms of hominoid interaction.
From Popularity Dialler:
"Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting.
With "The Popularity Dialler", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialled and you will hear a pre-recorded message that's one half of a conversation. Thus, you will be prompted to have a fake conversation and will easily fool those around you".
Popularity Dialler is especially hilarious. They sport pre-programmed phone calls from a random male, random female, an affirmation call, a standard boss call, or, my favourite, the random "cousin in need"! The recordings are genius, one-sided conversations metered so that you have space to plausibly respond in kind.
Unfortunately there's a hitch with using PD at the moment (beyond it only being available in the US for now): turns out that the FCC in the States has asked them to close down their service after a spurious situation arose where a senior attorney for the FCC received an unrequested PD call on her cell phone and then filed a complaint. Oddly, possible entrapment issues have been uncovered by the PD folks, who did some research and revealed that the phone call upon which the citation was based was requested from an FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) IP address. As the PD folks say: "Thus, the call was both elected and received by employees of government agencies. It seems a little strange".
Apparently, the main issue at hand is that people in the US pay for their incoming cell minutes so if they receive calls they don't request, they still have to pay for them. That's a tremendously shitty system huh?!
You can hear some cracking yarns using the dialler here.
Popularity Dialler (http://popularitydialer.com/); and
PhoneMyPhone (http://www.phonemyphone.com/).
Each of them call your phone for you at a scheduled time to provide a phone interruption when you anticipate being bored-to-death in meetings or any of the other horrendous forms of hominoid interaction.
From Popularity Dialler:
"Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important or popular on that hot date. Or maybe you just needed an excuse to escape from an unpleasant meeting.
With "The Popularity Dialler", you can plan ahead. Via a web interface, you can choose to have your phone called at a particular time (or several times). At the elected time, your phone will be dialled and you will hear a pre-recorded message that's one half of a conversation. Thus, you will be prompted to have a fake conversation and will easily fool those around you".
Popularity Dialler is especially hilarious. They sport pre-programmed phone calls from a random male, random female, an affirmation call, a standard boss call, or, my favourite, the random "cousin in need"! The recordings are genius, one-sided conversations metered so that you have space to plausibly respond in kind.
Unfortunately there's a hitch with using PD at the moment (beyond it only being available in the US for now): turns out that the FCC in the States has asked them to close down their service after a spurious situation arose where a senior attorney for the FCC received an unrequested PD call on her cell phone and then filed a complaint. Oddly, possible entrapment issues have been uncovered by the PD folks, who did some research and revealed that the phone call upon which the citation was based was requested from an FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) IP address. As the PD folks say: "Thus, the call was both elected and received by employees of government agencies. It seems a little strange".
Apparently, the main issue at hand is that people in the US pay for their incoming cell minutes so if they receive calls they don't request, they still have to pay for them. That's a tremendously shitty system huh?!
You can hear some cracking yarns using the dialler here.
