January 2010
8 posts
747:40
THE icon of the jet age, the most alluring and attractive of all widebody airliners (A380 designers take note), the 747 is 40 years old this week and Flight International has a slightly geeky yet quite readable history to date - and there are still more than 100 on order.
Having already travelled in seat 1A this year I can report there is still something novel and exciting sitting in the very...
Hahnenkamm Downhill - You Finish, You Win →
With the Winter Olympics on the horizon, here’s the downhill skiing experience in the words of a racer. I got scared just watching it…
“Our ideal passenger is someone with a pulse and a credit card, who will follow...”
– Michael O’Leary exhibits his normal love for customers.
Netflix movie queues
I (geekily) think this is very interesting - charting the relative popularity of DVDs rented through Netflix. Have a play around. As Junk Charts writes, this is the best yet from the New York Times team.
“Motivational speaker, celebrity, drywaller”
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First among eagles - The Globe and Mail - Eddie the Eagle’s back in Calgary, and still puts on his bottle glasses even though he’s had eye surgery.
