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Category: telecomms

This is Birmingham calling

Herself has recently been getting a lot of telephone messages for some midlands socialite named Mark. Neither of us know who he is, but the voicemail keeps coming. Spookily the phone doesn’t ring for him, ever, but still the messages appear. Thanks to the magic of the internet, using the audio player below, now you [...]

How many Daleks does it take to change a lightbulb?

In the UK, when you text a fixed line phone, such as one in a home, from a mobile the text message is turned into a voice message read by a robot. Until today (January the 7th 2007), in aid of the housing charity Shelter, Tom Baker has been providing the voice for this robot, [...]