–Sebastian
Here is a little tidbit that I’m happy to pass on even though I don’t have a cell phone (yes I know that is very disappointing Mom, but it’s still true).
The idea is that you put ICE in front of the entry of the person in your cell phone who should be contacted In Case of Emergency. Brilliant and simple, like so many good ideas once pointed out. IF it becomes a popular idea, it will be like standardizing the emergency number to "911". So here is my attempt to help with that.
From the Washington Post via Marginal Revolution.
I’m also listening to a Cause & Effect song which has an interesting line: "If beauty is skin deep then your skin is made of glass. Oh Mother of Thanksgiving we may never learn from the past." I don’t know why I find that fascinating.
You can consider this an open thread.
The ICE thing is a great idea. Although, <geek> the first thing I thought when I saw that was Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics. </geek>
It’s funny how certain lyrics stick in your head and fascinate you like that. I think one of the best examples of that, for me, was from October Project’s One Dream:
If I could speak in tongues of flame
I’d burn forever with your name
IF it becomes a popular idea, it will be like standardizing the emergency number to “911”. So here is my attempt to help with that.
It was first proposed in the UK just after Thursday 7th July, so really it’s like standardizing the emergency number to “999”. 😉
But I agree, it’s an excellent idea. I added ICE1 and ICE2 as alternative contacts.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this in Japanese. Unfortunately, there is a scam here called “remittance-soliciting” fraud (furikome sagi) where someone gets a phone call saying that a relative has been involved in some problem and the person needs to quickly remit a sum of money to make the problem go away, so something that links up to your emergency contact would probably be an invitation for fraud.
… so something that links up to your emergency contact would probably be an invitation for fraud
ah humanity
Of course, the ICE would have to sign an authorization. We should establish basic standards for and ICE and certainly would need and ICE Society of sorts. Should our ICE meet some sort of diversity quota criteria – and how about updates? And those people who change their ICE frequently could negatively impact their credit rating. Background checks, must have background checks. And could your ICE forward to an ‘On Star’ type service if they’re on vacation or something. If only Terri would have had Michael listed as an ICE on her cell. Yeah, I think it’s a fabulous idea.
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For some reason Frost’s ice and fire runs through my head as a head-banging rock song:
From what I’ve tasted of DE-SIRE
I hold with those who favor FIRE
then an electric guitar goes into tangnangnangnang
ICE is the first three letters of the acronymic name of the company I work for. I certainly don’t want them to be called in case I’m hit by a car or something!
Hmm. My Treo has a huge number of contacts in its address book, and I can’t imagine anyone looking through all that for ICE. On the other hand, when you turn it on, the first menu that comes up has a speed-dial to my wife right at the top. Maybe I could change it from her name to “Wife” to make it more obvious. Likewise “Sister” and so on. On the third hand, that’s a creepy depersonalization of these people close to me.
Kyle, you could put the number in twice–one under each name.
Or I could put it in twice and put the ICE in front of it. “ICE Wife” Maybe not. Maybe just one or the other. Nyuck nyuck nyuck.
Weirdly enough I just got a letter through from the wardens who run my building (student accommodation) and they say
“ICE in your mobile address book
Contrary to recent advice in [the building] and elsewhere, do not insert your emergency contact into your mobile in this way. There is a virus designed to propagate via a ring-tone download and ICE entries.”
according to this . it’s bullshit. Strange how I hear the sensible information thru the internet, and get the hoaxes via paper mail….like I’m in my own private (and unexiting) Bizarro World…
Low tech solution.
What about sticking a label on your cellphone that says “in case of emergency speed dial 2?”
ummm… slow news day ?