Friday Link-o-Rama

Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair

With instruments to measure his altitude and speed, a global positioning system device in his pocket, and about four plastic bags holding five gallons of water each to act as ballast — he could turn a spigot, release water and rise — Couch headed into the Oregon sky.

Air passengers get wiggle room on ‘bomb jokes’

Some other examples from a document, by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority:

– “I am going to set fire to the airplane with this blowtorch” (false declaration), versus “What do you think I look like, a terrorist?” (careless or inflammatory).

– “He is going to hijack the aircraft” (false declaration) versus “Hi Jack!” (careless or inflammatory).

– “The man in seat 32F has a machine gun” (false declaration), versus “My gun misfired when I was hunting this weekend” (careless or inflammatory).

Brigitte Caron, a spokeswoman for the security authority, said the clarification was issued because “screening officers were not discerning the context in which the declaration or the statement was made.

“And they were a little bit too quick on the trigger.”

If you ever build yourself a hovercraft…

Don’t go over a grate, it will hurt.

Darth Vader backpack

Strange shaped melons

The vegetable variety:

Will the iPhone blend?

Yes.

The 10 stupidest theives caught on video

Really quite stupid.

The 10 worst things to do during a zombie outbreak

A couple of good ones:

10) Don’t set zombies on fire. Burning zombies smell terrible.
7) Don’t keep zombies in the basement. Even if they are your zombie family.

Wifi network and computer network names

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has posted some of the wireless network names his iPhone picked up recently, here are a selection:

• McJesus
• TuckerPoo
• breasts

I particularly like breasts… Anyway, this started us talking in the 29degrees office about our wireless network and computer names. At the risk of starting a meme, here are mine:

Wireless network name: foo

Computer names:

• Laptop (PowerBook): marmot
• Linux machines: Patrician and Plebian

I am interested in Tony, Carl, Dean, Stig and Paul’s nerdy naming conventions. Let’s see how far this can go ;)