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Alaska Airlines saves millions by rethinking check-in flow
via Signal vs. Noise by Matt on June 17, 2008
Hustle & Flow [Fast Company] takes a look at Alaska Airlines’ effort to design a better way to get customers through airport check-in.The airline studied theme parks, hospitals, and retailers to see how they handled similar situations. Then, the team built mock-ups in a warehouse using cardboard boxes for podiums, kiosks, and belts in order to find ways to increase efficiency.The resulting...
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Totlol: YouTube Videos for Toddlers
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on June 16, 2008
Totlol is a community-moderated video site for “those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.” Its video embeddings – like the Googleheads song – are based on the YouTube API, making for a customized, integrated look*. Totlol’s About page explains, “Online video is a great new experience, and new parents discovered that showing their tots videos on the computer screen is a great way...
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Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 17, 2008
Photo sharing site Flickr is one of the leading lights of Yahoo - but cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won’t be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.Fake officially left last Friday. Butterfield (who still officially runs Flickr) will leave on July 12. Kakul Srivastava, the...
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If anyone mentions cheese pizza I may just have to take up violence
via dooce.com by dooce on June 17, 2008
Oh, Florida.Yesterday morning life hit us like a searing laser of Utah sun at 4:30 AM when Coco began howling wildly to be let out of her crate. We were still high from the smell of salt and sea, our bellies still full of fried everything, our minds still as calm as the line of the horizon over the ocean, so it was a bit of a jolt. An unwelcome jolt. A knife to the eye. A kick in the shin. And...
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Addled
via Talking Points Memo by Josh Marshall on June 18, 2008
McCain again forgets what his own policy is -- this time on cap and trade.
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Barack Obama's One Millionth Supporter on Facebook
via techPresident by Michael Whitney on June 17, 2008
Also posted on MichaelWhitney.netBarack Obama is about to get his one millionth fan. The Democratic candidate's official Facebook page saw a sharp increase right around when Sen. Clinton dropped out earlier this month, and has climbed steadily since. Lucky #1,000,000 will arrive tonight.At 7:09pm EST - I twittered that Obama had 998,901 fans, and he'd reach one million "by the end of...
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Oh Happy Day
via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan on June 18, 2008
A reader writes:Myspouse and I were married today after 15 1/2 years together. Theprocess was very smooth and easy. We had a 3:30 appointment; when wearrived at San Bernardino city hall registrar, there was a churchadvertising that it would marry anyone. There were no protesters. There were a lot of female couples, and one of the clerks even criedwhen she spoke to one of the females getting...
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Get Firefox
via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire by (author unknown) on June 18, 2008
Amazingly, more than half of Political Wire readers still use Internet Explorer as their web browser. The new version of Firefox is out today and it's a much better and faster choice. It's also free. Highly recommended.
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A Huffington Post Feature That Even Tucker Bounds Will Like
via Marc Ambinder by (author unknown) on June 18, 2008
They're posting all the campaign conference calls online.
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The Woolsey Factor
via Matthew Yglesias by (author unknown) on June 17, 2008
... for the Iraq War:In the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's attacks, attention has focused on terrorist chieftain Osama bin Laden. And he may well be responsible. But intelligence and law enforcement officials investigating the case would do well to at least consider another possibility: that the attacks--whether perpetrated by bin Laden and his associates or by others--were sponsored, s...
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