Airlines to passengers: Stuff it
Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:18 PM by Will Femia
How to Pack Everything You Own in One Bag - When I was away last week the rule for checked luggage on Delta changed while we were away. On the way back we were allowed fewer bags than when we left. We were three people with four bags, which would have meant a 25 dollar fee. The mistake we made was the snap decision to just take the smallest bag as a carry on. That was the toiletry bag which of course had all those bomb making shampoos in it. What we should have done was stuffed the smaller bag into the bag containing the child car seat.
The TV folks just did another one of those "what the bloggers are saying" segments that seems more like "what the bloggers are saying about what cable news is saying." What I see political bloggers talking about a lot is the number of
lobbyists tied to McCain and his campaign.
Speaking of the Web picking on McCain,
Things that are younger than McCain - The latest in what seems to be a new trend of one-liner URLs. Did you see
Things I did last night?
Man babies is a pretty funny meme. Coming soon as an option at the Sears Portrait Studio near you?
The
blurted curse of a local New York news anchor comes just as video of a
Bill O'Reilly meltdown finds new life online. (Gawker actually went whole-hog with a
top ten on-camera meltdowns list.)
NOTE: F-bombs galore.
I thought Last FM's
Most Frequent top 10 Tracks would be a good way to see what's hot in music right now. Unfortunately it also seems to be a good way to find out what's new and free on Last FM right now. The whole first page is from the new free Nine Inch Nails album. (
Album? What the hell do you call it when it never makes it to a tangible medium?)
I played a bit with
Microsoft's World Wide Telescope last night. It's like Google Earth for the night sky. My only note is that even on a pretty fast machine it takes a really long time to start up and there's not a whole lot of indication that it's doing anything. I thought it was broken because for a few minutes the only sign of activity I got was a brief title screen. Then suddenly the whole thing came up.
Ron Paul supporters are doing something they call "
a reverse money bomb." When they were doing fundraising for the candidate they called big fundraising days "money bombs." In this case, reversing the money bomb isn't about the candidate, it's about taking money out of banks. The idea (as best as I understand it) is that if enough people do it they can affect the value of the dollar by decreasing its availability.
Cool optical illusions.
You almost don't see it.
Related: This explanation of different but similar looking
cool motion illusions.
Speaking of illusions, the very last photo on page two reveals how this guy
makes himself stick to the wall with one hand.
On the one hand I love the idea of
scanning membership cards into a phone instead of keeping all those plastic cards in my wallet. On the other hand, once you're dealing with photos of bar codes, doesn't that make counterfeiting that much easier? On the third hand, does it really matter if I share the image of my PetCo discount card with my online friends?
Review: 13 Rule-Breaking FilmsA photoset showing the similarities between
Grand Theft Auto 4 and real life. Matches game photos with real photos of New York City. Tourism in New York City (or anywhere really) based on film locations or TV shows is common but I can't think of any other video game location sites. See also
real life restaurants in NYC from GTA. How soon before you can pay to have your restaurant included in a video game?
6 Ways Remote Workers Can Prove They're Working - Though the headline has potential to be a joke entry, it's basically sound advice about staying in touch at work. What I like about it is that it's also pretty good advice if you're not working remotely, which makes me wonder if some companies wouldn't run better if the employees were working remotely and following guidelines like this.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Internet Users - Hard to explain, it's a funny chart that matches Web activities with your mood -kind of.
Thing that I already know is going to eat up my evening tonight:
60 Photography Links You Can’t Live WithoutThing that I already spent too much time on today:
AudioTool - See the
Wired review here.
