Jun 28, 2008 3:56 AM

Dead Media Beat: A Mobile Phone Embedded in Asphalt

Originally uploaded by ibcbulkFrom Italy... Pompeiian, yet utterly abject.

Ask not for whom the ringtone tolls, it tolls for thee:

http://theburnlab.blogspot.com/2008/06/internet-ephemera.html

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