Guy sends Macbook to CompUSA for repair, gets SOMEONE ELSES HARD DRIVE back

Thread: He sent his MacBook in for repair at CompUSA, and when he got it back, it had someone else's hard drive in it. Where is his drive? What will Apple and CompUSA do next? See here to find out.

This appearance on Digg, and others like it, are the Small World phenomenon gone crazy. Its really a technical problem with any national/international media outlet. We are at the mercy of the outlet (whether it be Editors or Algorithms) to serve us the information we need. But a percentage of it will always be useless, anecdotal junk. These bits and pieces can have no value because they cannot be validly used in cases in points.

In their most harmless form they are forgettable bits of white noise. When they are devestating, however, they skew some pictures of our world grossly out of their regular, appropriate place in our lives. As a professor of mine once explained, for all the caring mustered up by the images of the World Trade Center attack, our society doesn't regard the deaths of ten times as many people each year on our nation's highways as a problem. This shows up at the individual level, where people explain away this situation as due to something such as accident. For if it were important, it would indeed be addressed by our media outlets. If it were a big deal, it would be a big deal. And yet a single blonde girl gone missing on an island vacation can generate hundreds of hours of media coverage, up to the minute and live. But the examples can be plucked straight from the tree: Stylist tries to halt Britney shaving head, 'Ghost Rider' lights up box-office, Confessed Web Addict sues IBM, 'One Size Fights All' in NY's free condom plan, Corpse Sat in front of TV for Year ... all taken just now from CNN.com.

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