No one likes the French, stereotype or statistical probability?? Well, it turns out that it’s both! Well, when it comes to French tourists, at least, a new survey shows that the French are now considered the most obnoxious tourists (excepting the Indian and Chinese, hey man, Time wrote this shit, not me). (via) That’s right, [...]

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Ben IM’d me this beauty yesterday. Apparently London is very concerned about the rash of inattentive texters walking in to lampposts. Their big fix is padding the posts… are they serious? That’s so dumb, I mean, if it were America, we’d just pass a law making them wear helmets. Y’know? That’s the smart way to [...]

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I came across the TSA blog (glamorously named “evolution of Security”) the other day (via). It is surprisingly, surprising to me at least, a fairly interesting blog. It’s young - started at the very end of January, but it’s got several posts already.
A lot of the first posts were simply about security points that they [...]

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US domestic airlines suck. Part of the problem is that, they simply don’t care. Airlines have almost no incentive to be good. Hell, they’re all bankrupt. They don’t care what you say about them. All they care about is wringing every last cent from you. Remember when you used to be able to eat on [...]

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Today we talk about science. First we have this bit from USA Today about the increasing goodness of solar power. Apparently we’re just at the point where big strides are happening and soon solar will be a viable energy source, I am totally into it. This will reduce the strain on the energy grid by [...]

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You know we here in the U S of A have a particular view of Colombia. Not a very good view. Having married a Colombian, I see the ribbing she takes pretty much from every new person she meets. Every new person she meets and, you know, me all the time. And while some of [...]

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Well, I talked about the voting a bit ago and now the results are in. As far as I know, some random group of people chose themselves to be the “NewOpenWorld Foundation” (note the lack of spacing to let you know they’re a hip, with-it foundation) and ran this vote worldwide. Well, worldwide for the [...]

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Ok, I know yesterday was iPhone day, but apparently today Apple let the review embargo lapse so now there’s tons of hands on reviews from big media. Check out Gizmodo for a bit of a roundup and Netly News for a review of the reviewers. (fakesteve’s take on Mossberg’s review is pretty great.) Ok, that’s [...]

Categories: breakfast links · nyc · travel

Ok, so you know I’ve spent no shortage of words on the UK recently. I mean, they just make it so easy, what with all their flushing their phones down the toilet, sure one time I dropped my pager into the can - but that was a long time ago! And then there’s their recently [...]

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Well Boston finally gave up on trying to get Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens behind bars. The two who were charged with putting up “hoax” terrorist devices around Boston. Charges were dropped in exchange for community service and a public apology. The whole thing was ridiculous and while I can totally and completely understand the [...]

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