Passengers are slow to board aircraft, and airlines are working on better algorithms for choosing an order in which passengers should load. - Amit Patel

More recently: http://www.npr.org/templates/s... "boarding passengers randomly is significantly faster than the traditional method of simply boarding them from back to front." and "lining up passengers whose seat assignments are two rows apart and boarding them from the back of the plane to the front then repeating for the other rows is the most efficient way of getting passengers onto a plane." - seth

Woah! The TSA (much-maligned U.S. airport security folk) have a blog, and it seems decent. - Amit Patel

The TSA is such a farce. It's an exercise in diminishing our reaction to invasion of privacy. It increases our security much less than it decreases our feeling of freedom of mobility. The TSA is much maligned with very good reason. - Jason Wehmhoener via Alert Thingy

For anyone who might be visiting or interested in Machu Picchu, take a look a this gigapixel image with a zoomable web UI. - Amit Patel

I read this as "Mega Mega Pikachu - 1.5 GigaPixel" and wondered why anyone would that much detail for a cartoon character that can probably be accurately/completely represented with a 128 x 128 image. - Mihai Parparita

Its really amazing to see each and every individual in that mega sized image :) - Krishna

Woah! Resig ported Processing to Javascript! Mostly for the next gen browsers. - Amit Patel

Which of these is most like the future FriendFeed Global Headquarters? - Amit Patel

It's nice to see more companies that get that aesthetics affect behavior. If you build something that looks like a prison, people will act like prisoners. If you build something looks like a farm, people will become farmers, etc. - Ginger Makela

Brilliant stuff. Now I wonder how people's living spaces affect them as well - suburbia vs. urban center. - Jason Kaneshiro

anyone know if it's possible to arrange a tour of the pixar offices? they look incredible - Adam Kazwell

Visiting the Pixar offices is notoriously difficult. That is to say, I'll buy dinner for two (at the SF restaurant of their choice) to anyone who can arrange a tour for my fiancee and myself. - Tudor Bosman

Brilliant! A Flash version of Portal. - Amit Patel

Several ex-googler startups have three people involved, sometimes two founders and one additional. Google itself had two founders and one extra person. - Amit Patel

Hmm. Many VCs like pairs of 2 founders that are (1) not family related (2) not too close (3) complementary skill sets...This three thing? - Mitchell Tsai

I have seen that occur with 2 partners and then an outside party, usually a CFO or otherwise finance savvy person - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl

How efficient are incandescents? LEDS? Flourescents? - Amit Patel

I'm waiting for compact sodium bulbs. Monochromatic dull yellow is the new green! - ⓞnor

Visualization of all the streets in the U.S. You can see population density, mountain ranges, etc. - Amit Patel

I so want to zoom in. - Sanjeev Singh

XML parser that's supposedly almost as fast as strlen. - Amit Patel

Fujifilm has an octagonal design for their digital camera CCDs, where the small squares give additional data. - Amit Patel

CHDK lets you add new features to many Canon cameras, including high speed photography, motion detection, battery meter, RAW file support, and much more control over various parameters. - Amit Patel

Wow, this sounds really cool. Robby, you should try this. - Paul Buchheit

wow CHDK looks awesome. I've been wanting a compact Canon anyway. You can run scripts on your camera! Even motion detection. I wonder if it works with Eye-Fi - Rex Pechler via Alert Thingy

it does looks interesting - bob

It's neat. I played with the high speed photography last night. I'm still learning about lighting for short shutter speeds. - Amit Patel

so it worked well/was pretty easy? no major problems? - bob

What people say when they leave Google. - Amit Patel

Resistors, capacitors, inductors, and now … memristors. An electronic component that has memory. Predicted back in 1971, but nobody knew how to make one until now. - Amit Patel

Another story about the guy who sprinkled pixie dust on his amputated finger, and the finger grew back. This time with video! - Amit Patel

To make a successful computer language, you need a beard. - Amit Patel

About bump keys, and how they're used to get past a standard lock, and also some other types of keys that are resistant to bumping. - Amit Patel

What would happen if everyone woke up, and actually did interesting things instead of watching TV with their free time? This kind of thing gives me the chills. - Amit Patel

About depression, happiness, and how people estimate effects badly. - Amit Patel

ROFLcon sounds like fun. A celebration of internet memes like lolcats, tron guy, chuck norris, etc. - Amit Patel

Why Google's ”free” lunch could be more profitable for them than not providing it. - Amit Patel

Mixing music in Flash using a hack - Amit Patel

Trying to assign monetary value to nature's resources may lead to people protecting them more. - Amit Patel

Especially if Nature can do something, like filter water for a city, more cost-effectively than developing the land and mechanically filtering the water. - phil.gs

The diffraction limit has been broken!! - Amit Patel

Kevin Kelly imagines economics in a world where copying is free. What has value? What will people pay for? He has a really good list. - Amit Patel

Unusual character classes in MMORPGs - Amit Patel

List of charting packages for web applications. - Amit Patel

Big surprise ;) - Amit Patel

It should be possible to make ribosomes act just as if you had a low-calorie diet, so that you could live longer without such a diet. - Amit Patel

“It's our dream to make everything taste like bacon.” … “Even more improbably, Dave’s 3 year old son Dean provided our first round of financing with this $5000 win on America's Funniest Home Videos” - Amit Patel

Mmmm.... bacon. Good find! - Louis Gray

I just can't believe how wonderful their marketing is. "Everything should taste like bacon." Their blog has some great posts: http://www.baconsaltblog.com/. Great story! - Bret Taylor

Just invested in this company. Makes otherwise great startups pale in comparison! :-) - Richard Chen