An interesting site is available that shows the impact of various increases in the sea level. Flood Maps is a mashup of Google maps and elevation data from NASA. It lets you adjust the amount of increase in the sea level.
Author: Witzke
Airlines Try Smarter Boarding
Do you dread the airline boarding routine where passengers wait to be called to board in an orderly manner, yet inside the plane there are still multiple passenger interference points.
Wired News: Airlines Try Smarter Boarding reports on the analysis and implementation of various boarding systems that can reduce the interference among passengers and reduce turnaround time at the gate. With names such as reverse pyramid, “Wilma” and “rotating zone” these systems try to reduce the time it takes to get everyone onto the plane, bags stowed and underway.
Check out the graphic which has a visual animation of the various systems.
Gone in 20 Minutes: using laptops to steal cars
Leftlane News reports that all is not well in the world of high-tech gadgetary in cars. It looks like thieves are using laptops to crack the wireless code that controls the keyless entry systems for cars.
I’m glad my car still uses a good old key.
Better late than never
It looks like Gartner group is being taken to task again for finally coming up with their statements on something that was so obvious to all.
Whatever you do, get on the bandwagon makes reference to the large amounts of money spent by large enterprises on their research.