Phantom Power… Ooooh, Scaaary!

I was reading the Customer Green Stories at Canadian Tire’s site – I know, what a loser, eh?  – and I came across this nugget from “top 1000 contributor” Anon123 in Toronto:
Recently, I’ve been hearing more and more about phantom power…[that] your TV, computer and other appliances use when they are turned off… If you [...]