Have Your Cellphone Blessed By a Japanese Shinto Priest

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Handsome man Brian Ashcraft has no luck with his phones. It's not that he misplaces them, it's that they try to escape from his handsome clutches. That's why he had to turn to a Shinto priest.

His latest contribution to Wired paints a picture of people in Japan asking these priests to bless all kinds of electronics to protect them from misbehaving, from copies of Windows XP to Roombas to copies of Windows Vista. Pretty much anything you can bring in, they will bless (as long as you pay them). Head on over to Wired to get the full story. [Wired]

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