So I see this link to a page of “Funny Air Traffic Control quotes.” Figure any list of funny quotes is probably a good list. Man was I wrong. To be fair, it might not be the air traffic controllers’ fault they’re not funny. It might be they don’t have a good set-up man. Or [...]
Friday is world-wide No Pants day. That makes it an opportunity for the thousands flying tomorrow: leave your pants in your luggage and go no-pants on the airplane.
More info at www.nopantsday.com
There’s some good stuff in Daily Candy’s Travel Commandments. My favorite:
You call it a romantic three-day weekend; the airlines call your Friday night departure a sitting duck. Keep a plan B at point A just in case a jauntily named storm comes between you and paradise.
Edward Tufte probably doesn’t need to see this, but you do. This is a funny, insightful and cute doodles-as-analysis / unsophisticated stat site: indexed.blogspot.com (via Information Aesthetics).
Other favorites of mine:
Pop Stars vs. Possums
Contraception for the lazy
Biological clock warning signs
The beer cycle
I’m not making fun of airline safety or anything, but I’m intensely curious why the U.S. Transportation Security Administration felt the need to single out “Toy Transformer Robots” on their list of what you can and can’t bring in your checked luggage and in your carry-on.
Also, and this is something I didn’t know: It’s okay to bring saline or eyedrops with you, as long as the container is four ounces or less. Mascara and toothpaste are still no-nos, that is, unless you feel like putting them in your pocket.
A quick look through Fuck Continental Airlines gives the impression that maybe this site needed a marketing budget. There aren’t any stories on it, and heck, you figure it could at least link to the infamous Seat 29E complaint. Was the domain registered in a moment of anger? Did the anger then subside?
It’s too bad, because niche sites like FCA have massive usefulness potential. Think if there were similar sites created for every airline. One could then measure airlines by how many complaints-per-day they were averaging on their particular Fuck site. Oh well
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A rabbit takes on an Airbus A380, on the Airbus’ home turf. One photo captures this moment, which will live forever only in the minds of the photographer and the bunny. Check out the photo here, and check out some lively discussion on the merits of Runway Bunny here.
Check it out here: FedEx arrivals in Memphis during thunderstorms.
The New York Times profiles New York’s Flight Club — a consignment vintage sport-shoe store in NYC … check out the article here.
From 87 Bad Predictions About The Future:
«Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical (sic) and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.» – Simon Newcomb; The Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk 18 months later. Newcomb was not impressed.
«Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.»
Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.«It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.»
Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1895.«Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.»
Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, 1904.«There will never be a bigger plane built.»
A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people.