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Daily Archives: Tue,November/14/2006
Watch Snakes On A Plane – On A Plane
Apple announces that they’ve inked a deal with Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates and KLM to integrate flyers’ iPods with their in-flight enternainment systems.
You’ll be able to charge the iPod while watching movies and TV shows on the seat back displays. No word how the airlines will control the content (can you say porn at 35,000 feet).
UPDATE: Not so fast say Air France and KLM (story)
5 Minutes Equals $972,000,000.00
That’s the price that Southwest Airlines came up with if it took 5 minutes longer to board each of their flights.
Figure comes from an interesting article examining the different techniques airlines use to get the cattle into the aircraft.
And We Need These Because?
Personalize your air travel experience by using “Plane Sheets”, available in reusable or disposal versions.
Choose from assorted styles and colors starting at $24.99 for the washable cover and only $12.99 for the disposable (dark blue only).
“Make every seat feel like First Class!” touts the manufacturer.
Can’t wait until I see the first bozo on a crowded airplane holding people up to put a diaper on his seat
One Mars Explorer To Help The Other
NASA is planning to use the newly arrived Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (pictured below) to take pictures of the 10 year old Global Surveyor in hopes to determine why the aging craft has stopped communicating. (STORY)
Think about that for a second. Two spacecraft over 200 million miles from Earth will be brought to within 93 miles of each other. We may have become jaded when it comes to space exploration but every so often something comes along that makes you just want to say WOW!!
In related news, the annual Leonid metor shower hits its peak this weekend and astronomers predict that this year’s show could be spectacular with activity of 100-600 meterors per hours between 11:45PM and 1:33 AM (EST) Saturday night. Might be a good chance to check out the DSLR’s long exposure capabilities. That is if the damm weather cooperates.
Quote Of The Day
Rod Serling
“It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.”