Airlines Now Want YOU to Lobby for Them

What a crock of shit. Apparently the 12 CEOs of U.S. airlines who are signatories of this open letter to the public really believe that every time a futures contract is traded it goes up in value… unlike their stocks. After billions of taxpayer dollars bailed these airlines out following 9/11, they have done […]

Oil: are we in a bubble?

Two things caught my attention as I watched crude oil prices fall again… the Iranians shooting off a bunch of missiles and talking tough did not scare the market, and demand for gasoline fell in Asia and the U.S., which during peak summer months is pretty significant.

In Asia governments can no longer afford to subsidize […]

Colorado Water Rights

Interesting, Coloradans have no claim to water falling from the sky even when it lands on their property… and water can only be used once. Read the link, the bit about rain barrels being the bong of the garden is priceless.

Rain barrels there, you see, are outlawed. Colorado state law mandates that any […]

Muni Wifi RIP

The full article is 2,600 words, but I’ll sum it up for you: Municipal wifi, great idea, technology doesn’t work at scale, no business model, companies rolling up their networks, on to WiMax.

But in the last few years, most cities’ plans to provide Internet access through a wireless network have fallen flat, deflated […]

Bit.ly and Semantic Mapping

Well this is geekilicious… not sure what application this will result in but it’s still geek chic.

In the background, Bit.ly is analyzing all of the pages that its users create shortcuts to using the Open Calais semantic analysis API from Reuters! Calais is something we’ve written about extensively here. Bit.ly will use Calais […]

Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Bag

When I saw this on Engadget I got kind of excited at the prospect of not having to take my laptop out at the checkpoint. Then I saw the image…. then I read the info page, which reads like one of those 126 part expanding pamphlets that get glued onto drug packages… then I saw […]

Rules, Rules, Rules

Always funny how “progressive” ends up meaning “controlled”. The list of rules that caterers have to abide by for the DNC this August is eye popping. It gets kinda hot in Denver around August, I’ll be curious to see how that bottled water rule holds up.

No bottled water, use pitchers instead[FromFood at the […]

Reiser Really Did Do It

Hans Reiser, creator of the open source ReiserFS file system, was convicted of murdering his wife back in April despite having not recovered the victim’s body. They have it now.

This trial was a pretty big deal here because of the tech connection (the comments on Slashdot following the guilty verdict were mildly amusing at times, […]

Gulfstream Liberals

Gordon Brown and his fellow world leaders have sparked outrage after it was disclosed they enjoyed a six-course lunch followed by an eight-course dinner at the G8 summit where the global food crisis tops the agenda.[From G8 summit: Gordon Brown has eight-course dinner before food crisis talks - Telegraph]

Britain’s PM Brown has another […]

Playing the Futures Market

MyGallons.com is a futures service for fuel that is open to everyday consumers that is part really interesting and part scary. Interesting because it gives financial mechanisms to consumes and offers the promise of real savings at the pump, but the scary part is that average consumers are ill-equipped to manage the process that the […]

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