Geez, just as I was making fun of an old technology that let you scan a barcode in a magazine to reach a web site, here is MIT's Technology Review, which is sticking complex UPS-style barcodes into articles and telling readers to shoot the damned thing with their smartphones.

Okay, you don't need some separate device for this...just download the software or get it from the iPhone App Store.

Whew! Hard to keep up with the past as it resurfaces.