Wired is carrying an article on an upcoming global flash mob scheduled for 2 p.m local time in 76 cities in 32 countries.
People are evidently quite taken by the idea of using e-mail, blogs and the Internet to gather together a group of people who suddenly materialize in public places, do something absolutely inane and then vanish.
Some mobs have joined together to sing Christmas carols. Others have gathered to support then-Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean, to attempt to link their laptops to form a supercomputer, to taunt performance artist David Blaine when he was hanging in a box over the River Thames in London or to protest local politics.
I guess some people need some excitement in their lives.. The full article can be seen here.