First off, this is hardly random spam.
Okay, here's what I did to obtain your e-mail address. First, I pulled up the Advanced Search option of the Google search engine. Then, I entered "flash mob" in the "with all the words" field. After choosing "20 results", I then clicked on "Google search". Before I sent anybody this courriel, I examined each website to ascertain whether there was an invitation of any sort. By invitation, I mean phrases such as "I welcome comments" and other like remarks.
In a sense, you passed the test. And that is why you've received this missive. In the event you received one previously, this one comes with new information.
For the sake of quick review, a 28-year-old female aide was found dead in the congressional district office of former Representative Joe Scarborough, currently an MSNBC luminary. The official inquiry into death of the aide, a Mrs Lori Klausutis, left some details open to further investigation. In the earlier note, I mentioned that those details nag at me, A Alexander Stella.
What's more, I'm far from being the only one. There are dozens of websites that are devoting space to this curious happenstance.
So, for the sake of justice for Lori Klausutis, I'm asking recipients such as yourself to consider employing the phenomenon of flash mobs. If you would like like more details, you're certainly invited to click on the following hyperlink:
flash mob for Lori
thanking you in advance for your time in reading this appeal,
warm regards
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A Alexander "Bogey" Stella
Oh, swell, likely enough, you'll have to click on my name, ah, the one by the date. And, if that fails, try inserting in the address field of your browser the following U.R.L, namely,
www.bcvoice.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=142

Thanks Marianne for your very right and sensitive comments. I much agree with what you say and have felt the need to edit and moderate my ideas in the above post.

I am not suggesting any kind of subversive behaviour though. I am only suggesting to consider that if we wanted we need not just party down indefinitely.

At one point one of us may well choose to build a small bridge, to clean-up a street slum in 10 minute, or to do erect a colorful art piece where you would least expect it.

I agree, I should let it flower wherever it needs to go.

Thank you Marianne for your wise critique.

Robin

Robin, potentially this is the kind of collective behavior that triggers the control-freaks' paranoia.

So, just for the taste of keeping flash mobs fresh, unpredictable and working, I'd just leave any conceptualisation away from my conscious mind. Because, also, others have already pondered and written about it. Just have a look at the comments that have popped up about Flash Mob 1, in particular on Golem Blog (in Italian http://www.golemblog.rai.it/golem/archives/000063.php )

At a higher conceptual level, Flash mobs are associated in my mind with Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ, Hakim Bey, http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html ) Among all possible senses and uses of the Flash Mob, for me it is and had better remain a celebration of the right to party.

Having no purpose, being unclassifiable (btw, this is the worst that can happen to an information architect ;-) is subversive of the order in itself. You've already put it so well:
"Not being there, and then being ALL there "all of a sudden" was another exercise in timing and loose dispersed and autonomous coordination.

A lite exercise but I had never seen a group of strangers get together so well."

If use need be, let it emerge and change and be unpredictable.