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Airlines Try Smarter Boarding

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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

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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.

Help the Invisible Children in Uganda

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Three young film makers went to Uganda to make a documentary. They came back with a story to tell and a promise made to the “Invisible Children”.

Invisible Children is a grassroots effort to create awareness and provide help and education to the children in Uganda who are being kidnapped and forced into the rebel armies as child soldiers.

You can make a difference by joining the Global Night Commute on April 29, 2006 or by purchasing the Invisible Children DVD and showing it to everyone you know.

These two video clips will have an impact on your life and what you can do to help: Proof and 100 Percent.

Microsoft to ‘host’ Linux virtually

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Microsoft is finally accepting the reality that enterprises want to use Linux within their IT environment. CNET reports that Microsoft to ‘host’ Linux virtually.

It’s better to share in the pie and control how the pie is divided, than losing all the business to . We’ll have to wait and see what performance degradation comes with Windows being the host OS.