A while back, I posted a link to "
Cooking an egg with two mobile phones" on
apocalinks, meaning to go back to it when I had five minutes.
Preamble:
I'm just writing up the results of a bit of googling at lunchtime here, not claiming to have exposed anything shocking at all. Anyone who reads that phones can cook eggs and doesn't instantly think "But surely, then, we'd all be dead from boiled brainmeats - this seems dubious" probably
has got problems in the grey-cells. Mostly, I found it interesting from an urban myth / 'meme' perspective.
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