This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on 17 January, 2010.

Industrialization: we’ve lost the ability to grow our own food, build our own shelter, entertain ourselves, and now, walk:

Slightly more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 because they got distracted and tripped, fell or ran into something while using a cellphone to talk or text. That was twice the number from 2007, which had nearly doubled from 2006, according to a study conducted by Ohio State University, which says it is the first to estimate such accidents.

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