Random, Beautiful, Useful

http://anonymouspostcard.org/

Anyone who wants to express feedback to any third party submits a claim. Claims can take the form of praise, suggestions or criticism. We process the most compelling claims by turning them into postcards and then figure out the best person to send them to. We post images of what we sent along with the original claim in the gallery.

Here’s the latest “claim” (link) which resulted in a post card to Samsung regarding a faulty flip-phone. Mostly what you’d expect, but a distinguished way to do it.

Claim No.: 040220090130

To:
Samsung

Claim:
I have one of your cellular phones. It’s a flippy model. It does most of what I want it to, I guess. I occasionally send text messages, and there’s one thing that bothers me. I like to use t-9 predictive text. And every time I type the numerical combination 8-6, I obviously mean “to.” Your telephone’s prediction, however, is invariably “um.”

I do not mean “um!” Even if my speech is infected by such verbal effluvia, I have no intention of either wasting two of my precious 160 characters on it or making people notice it.

On the off chance that I did want to convey some sort of indecision and actually write, “um,” I’d much rather click through to it on those occasions than have to click through to “to” every single time.

And I refuse to write “2″ (which takes more keystrokes even than getting to “to”) unless I absolutely need to save a character.

Mailed: 2009-02-27

What was the name of that site back in the day that would prank call someone with a chimp scream? Do you remember that?