Tag Archives: travel
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Airlines don’t want your business

21 Feb

They only want the money in your wallet, and they’ll do anything to get it. Kayak is trying to do their part by posting a table of the extra”fees” that airlines charge. The bag fees legroom charges being the most heinous.

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What took this so long?

21 Dec

The federal government is now legislating against what some might call inhumane treatment of airline passengers. According to the new rules…

Airlines that do not provide food and water after two hours or a chance to disembark after three hours will face penalties of $27,500 a passenger.

Apparently the threat of planes full of passengers boycotting an inconsiderate airline wasn’t a big enough deterrent for the airline industry.

[via clusterflock]

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Carbon offsets are like Diet Coke

21 Nov

They may make you feel better about yourself, but in the end they really don’t do anyone any good. In practice, carbon offsets encourage people to travel more and increase their personal emissions by removing any guilt. The same way you have people drinking 12 Diet Cokes a day, thinking it’s okay because it’s not regular soda. In the end, they both just make it easier for us to avoid the real sacrifices that need to be made.

Offsets have played a growing role in the greening of travel because carbon dioxide emissions from airplanes are growing so quickly and there is currently no technological fix that would drastically lower them.

[via Kottke]

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Travel-sized toiletries

17 Nov

A simple solution to a simple (and wholly unnecessary) problem. Having universal, sovaldi easy-to-pack and maybe even easy-to-refill packaging for toiletry items would make traveling much less of a hassle.

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Vanished no more

9 Sep

Wired writer Evan Ratliff has been found in New Orleans.

Update: The @vanishteam folks that tracked down Ratliff have posted a detailed log of how they found him. Wired has summarized the original rundown.

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Best. calendar. ever.

20 Aug

I wish there was a way to put this calendar on my wall. I guess I’ll have to settle for using it as a screensaver.

[Via GraphicHug]

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Saving lives with silence

29 Jun

An inspiring story, recipe that will no doubt spark much debate, about how the New York Times and Wikipedia might have just saved the life of a Times reporter as well as the lives of a local reporter and their driver while they were being held captive in a Taliban prison.

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Printing street signs

16 Jun

This is an awesome collection of photos from a street sign shop in Washington state. You rarely see these signs before they’re on the highway. It’s especially cool to see the scale of some of these signs.

[Via Graphic Hug]

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Welcome back

26 May

Although I had an amazing holiday weekend in Missouri, easily the worst part of the trip was traveling. From a cab driver trying to get cute with the route to the airport and nearly causing me to miss my plane, to flight reservation mistakes and flight change fees, bag check fees, added new flight costs, overbooked flights, plane delays, connecting flight delays and more. So after waiting in an extraordinary long line at the cab stand, to sit down in a cab, tell the driver where I need to go and hear, “Welcome home sir, it’s glad to have you back in New York. I hope you enjoyed your trip,” made my day. 

I think that was the first time someone ever made me feel glad to be back home in New York.

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Creepy, like whoa

27 Apr

Visit this link: 
http://www.isthisyourluggage.com

As if having your luggage manhandled by a stranger, it’s contents photographed and then put on display on the  internet, the individual that runs this gem of the web has this to say, “I… BUY THE CASES SO I CAN PHOTOGRAPH THEM FOR MY WEIRD VOYEURISTIC PASSION.” The all caps just make it worse.