The Simpsons Tackles Cell Phone Tracking

Last night’s new episode of the cartoon series has Bart longing for and eventually receiving a cell phone. Unknown to him initially,Mom Marge turns on the tracking feature. Then Bart cleverly has the family track,well,something else. It’s a clever episode and I found it fun to try to identify the technical slips in the presentation (that might be fun for a technology class,too). Also fun:the cartoon implementation of a Google Earth-like “zoom to the location of interest”tool used throughout the story.