Linkage

• Erik Spiekermann’s Typo Tips
  Should be in your toolbox.
• Commuter Files
  My boy, Z, and his take on, umm, life?
• The Visible Earth
  The best views aren’t always from down here. Try these from 200mi up.
• Top 30 Travel Books
  A solid list to start with… I’ll let you know when I get through them all.
• 42 ways to go trash-free
  From No Impact Man
• Gluten Free by Nature
  My sister Stephanie’s new website dedicated to gluten-free recipes.
• Flight Control (iTunes link)
  My favorite iPhone game
• Jude Healey Photography
  My wife’s gig
• The Tilley Hat
  I’ve got the Lighterweight LT6. My head thanks me.
• Turn down your A/C or heat
  Move your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer

Recently around here

• The Last Four Minutes of AF447

  An infographic accompanies an article by SPIEGEL detailing, in lay terms, the last four minutes of Air France 447.

• Obama Calls for End to NASA’s Moon Program

  This still has to go through Congress and a million hoops, but The NYTimes reports:
  President Obama is calling on NASA to cancel the program that was to return humans to the Moon by 2020, and focus instead on radically new space technologies.
  Mr. Obama’s 2010 budget proposal for NASA asks for $18 billion over five years [...]

• Air New Zealand ‘revolutionizes’ coach cabins

  On Air New Zealand’s new 777:
  When the so-called “friendly skies” are mentioned, a few airlines in particular come to mind: Virgin America, Singapore Airlines and Qantas, for starters. Starting today, you can safely include Air New Zealand in that discussion. In a bid to turn long-haul international travel on its head, the outfit has today [...]

• WSJ: White House Decides to Outsource NASA Work

  The privatization of NASA.

• Cold War era aircraft turned hotel – Vliegtuigsuite

  A 1960 120-passenger plane has been turned into a hotel in the Netherlands. Suite!

• The Complete National Geographic on 160-GB Hard Drive

  120 years from The Society in digital form.

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