Handy non-human phone contacts
- Google SMS (SMS
Google will reply very quickly with the response to whatever you asked
it about.
at MIT (Call 1-888-573-8255
(1-888-573-TALK)) - this is the weather number we grew up with on
crack. It’s an MIT project for doing some speech AI stuff and is
massively awesome.- fboweb (Call
haven’t been able to verify this one since it’s been busy since I
learned about it but fboweb.com, who provide realtime flight
information appear to have a phone number you can call to do flight
time estimates over the phone.
(sms/mail sms@mybus.org) -
this is sufficiently complicated that I think it’s too hard to bother
learning, but it’s included here for completeness or in case you’re
interested in it and smarter than I am. It relies on sending an actual
email message to sms@mybus.org, not just standard SMS (for t-mobile
customers this means composing an SMS to phone number “500″ and the
first string in the body should be the email address), then you need
to know the query syntax and your location ID, both of which no one
knows. If you have a web or WAP enabled phone, those interfaces are
much easier to use.
Note that the “call” links rely on the
probably only work if you’re reading the
version of this entry from your phone.
