Via Car Talk (so you know it will be funny), problem reports from pilots to maintenance crews.

Problem: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement.

Solution: Almost replaced left inside main tire.

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Matthew Thomas: Netscape is dead, long live Mozilla.

Netscape’s control over Mozilla was the single biggest factor in making Mozilla’s usability suck, from the project’s inception until two days ago. That’s a pretty tall order — to make an interface design crappier even faster than hundreds of volunteer geeks are — but somehow, Netscape managed it. That was the main reason I used to get so angry, so often.

29,000 rubber ducks, tossed overboard between China and Seattle more than a decade ago, will wash up on New England shores shortly.

After a mammoth journey, they are expected to start washing up on the New England coast. And while they will be bleached and battered from their journey, they are providing invaluable information on the ocean's currents. They were flung into the Pacific on the International Date Line, level with Oregon, USA.

[via Boing Boing Blog]

Here one week, gone the next.

The Register: RFID Chips are Here.

CNET News: Wal-Mart cancels 'smart-shelf' trial. The retail giant cancels testing for an experimental wireless inventory control system, ending one of the most closely watched efforts to bring RFID technology to store shelves.

News.Com: "An increasingly popular technique for preventing e-mail abuse is frustrating some visually impaired Net users, setting the stage for a conflict between spam busters and advocates for the disabled." [via Scripting News]

Washington Post: Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy. Marketers and an array of service providers are expanding their collection and use of consumers' e-mail addresses and other personal information, despite broad assurances to protect individual privacy and honor consumers' choices about how much marketing they want to receive.

Marketers also insist that they maintain the right to send messages to customers with which they have "existing business relationships." ... "Some companies, like psycho ex-boyfriends, tend to see relationships where they don't exist," said Chris Murray, legislative counsel for Consumers Union.

[via Tomalak's Realm]