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Here’s where my “rebellious” years of high school meet my present geeky self.  Hot Topic is purchasing ThinkGeek. I’ve gone from using Manic Panic to Manically Panicking over this acquisition.   According to the Verve: ThinkGeek is pretty well known for its wide variety of kitschy, pop-culture focused offerings — …

I’ve written before about the pickpocket networks in Paris and it turns out tourists aren’t the only ones upset about the abundance of them. Here’s a guide to avoiding the pickpockets in Paris. I’m from New York City and while we have a lot of petty larceny, it isn’t quite …

Coming soon–a communication tool that will speed up the rate of communication between the air traffic control and the pilots. Text messaging. From USA Today’s Charisse Jones: Data Comm is the latest piece of NextGen,a program that is seeking new air-traffic control equipment and procedures to make air travel safer …

Google Maps has been crowd-sourcing small details to their maps for a while.  Things like, where large patches of grass are, bike trails, small streams, etc. If you wanted to make an edit to the map, it would be vetted by someone, usually not employed by Google, who was also …

American Airlines cancelled 3.1% of its flights so far in 2015, over twice the percentage of Spirit Airlines. Delta only cancelled 0.7% of its flights, and Alaska only 0.3%. Dallas News dissected the details, based on this data from the Department of Transportation. Spirit also lost way less bags per …

The Association of Flight Attendants launched a lawsuit after the FAA allowed electronics on take off and landing.  The lawsuit was dismissed since the FAA has authority to change these types of rules. From SlashGear: The group claimed that passengers were no longer paying attention to the highlight of their …

With all the weather difficulties in Dallas, a lot of people have gotten stuck.  Including, the Minnesota Twins’ Trevor Plouffe. Plouffe had separated from his team to attend a funeral, but found himself stuck in DFW for a while when trying to get to Cleveland. From the Star Tribune: Trevor …

Surely you can’t be serious. I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley. According to USA Today’s Kim Wendel: A Jet Airways flight from Bangkok to Delhi had to make an emergency landing after the captain fell ill and, as a doctor was tending to him, another passenger was helping …

A woman was flying to Rochester through JFK from Oakland, but instead ended up on a direct flight to Barbados from Oakland–with no passport or boarding pass. From Road Warrior Voices:  Hussainzada had been visiting her daughter in Oakland, Calif. and was scheduled to fly home to Rochester after a …

Google has been working on driver-less cars for a while, with a pretty good success rate. Now they’ve set their sights on flights. According to Bloomberg:  The chief of Google Inc.’s experimental cargo-drone program wants to see automated flight go beyond pilotless planes and extend to commercial air travel. Just …