Didn't merit its own thread, but I wanted to share this story and thought a fair few people would see it if I put it here.
Md. father uses robocall to get revenge on school officials
Long and short, a local school district robo-called households with students in the public school system on Wednesday morning at 4:30 to let them know there would be a 2-hour delay. One parent thought this was absolutely ridiculous (especially since it had already been sent to parents over email and over the school system website by 11p the night before), so he used an online service to robocall members of the school board the next morning at 4:30.
I think it's great. I'm with the parent, at 4:30 a.m., if my phone rings, I'm in "oh shit" mode. I would have been livid if this had come to my house. I'm already pissed off at Obama for texting me at random hours of the night to let me know his VP choice and to let me know his vision for the new year (which reminds me, I need to get OFF that distribution). When Obama announced Biden, I had been especially pissed off because we had just launched a satellite, and the text came at 2 in the morning eastern time or something. Having just launched, I was definitely queued for middle of the night calls in case something awful happened. Plus, I'd already seen on CNN before going to bed that everybody was saying it was going to be Biden. Alas. The robocalling parent definitely is OK in my book.
/tk