Knowledge is power
How can you reduce your separation anxiety when your phone has to be charged? The old switching your phone to flight mode does work. The reason why is that while your phone is in its regular mode, it's continually trying to signal cell towers and pinpoint your location. And even though your phone most likely has assisted GPS, which calculates your location co-ordinates using the cellphone network rather than satellites, the function still burns up a lot of juice. That's because the location-finding stops your phone from going into full-on, energy-saving sleep mode. When you switch to flight mode, you turn off reception of those radio transmissions, and as a result, your phone charges more quickly. But don't get too excited, the time saved is not earth-shattering. When CNET tested the proposition a few years ago, flight mode only shaved four minutes off a phone's charging time in one trial, and 11 minutes in another. (Via How Things Work)
Saucy to saucer
"Another ad that has never left me was a public health anti-drinking ad (ALAC, maybe) from the 80s," writes Justine Munro. "Unfortunately, I can't find any more details online (maybe readers can help) but the key line was 'Stop making love to the bottle baby, start making love to me'. Unfortunately though, the public outcry (or probably the Patricia Bartlett outcry) was so great that the key line was replaced with 'Stop making love to the bottle baby, come and have a cup of tea'. I still use that example to explain to friends what growing up in NZ in the 80s was like."
