Sunday, March 10, 2013
Senior Delta pilot retires after grasping dream | www.ajc.com - Kelly Yamanouchi - After 45 years at Atlanta-based Delta, including 37 as a pilot, Flanigan is finally returning to the ground to retire. He is turning 65 — the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots. It caps off a flying career that included 25 years as a captain and a record eight years as the company’s most senior pilot.
Daylight Savings Time Steals an Hour - The Daily Beast - For the dwindling number of Americans who still own mechanical clocks, there's a small task ahead. At exactly 2 a.m. Eastern time Sunday, daylight savings officially arrives—bringing with it the hope of a glorious extra 60 minutes of light in the coming evenings. There are, of course, some places in America that choose not to participate in daylight savings time—Hawaii and the majority of Arizona among them. Unless you live there, get ready to jump into spring head first.
Saturday, March 09, 2013
Scarbinsky: Jay Jacobs makes more than Mal Moore? That's rich | al.com - Are you sitting down? You should be. If you're not careful, this is the kind of news that'll knock you off your feet. Jay Jacobs makes more money than Mal Moore.
What Happens to Social Media After a Twitter Revolution? - Mashable - The main discovery of the study is that after the uprisings brought down decades-old regimes, "citizens in Egypt and Libya use social media to talk about revolution and state-building in two distinct registers: instrumental and interpretative," the study's abstract says.
As Time Goes Bye - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - We can’t wear black crepe every time someone prefers to read on a tablet; we can’t be like the auto industry and the G.O.P., who got accustomed to waiting around for it to be 1965 again. -- Digital platforms are worthless without content. They’re shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they’re empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you’re reading. It is about what you’re reading.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)