Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Bookmarks: Some stuff to read on the internet

Boing Boing Gadgets reports on a market where the cassette is still king - prisons:

But who is buying Paris' cassettes? America's 2.3 million prisoners. Which brings us to the second advantage of tape over compact disc: a tape can't be broken apart and used as a shiv. Prisoners are allowed to have them. 60% of Paris' business is in cassette tapes.


2 comments:

Pat Kenny said...

You could always tear out the reel and choke someone with the tape.

Many's a time i've seen it attempted at work.

Simon Hayes Budgen said...

And that tape itself - I'm sure I saw an episode of Armchair Theatre once where a person was garroted with the stuff.

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