This is the way of modern life.

NPR: 'This American Moment' As Peggy Noonan Sees It

As a way to work out the frustrations of modern life, the town of Savonlinna in southeast Finland holds an annual Mobile Phone Throwing Competition in order to recycle old handsets and have a little fun in the process.

BBC: Mobile phones take flight in Finland

One of these realities is the energy system -- hydrocarbons in general, and oil and gas in particular -- that undergirds our modern way of life.

CNN: The price of our oil addiction

Hard-up clubs don't have the luxury of undersoil heating but to call some games off because surrounding roads and pavements were icy highlighted our modern cosseted way of life.

BBC: Leon Osman and Richard Dunne set good example