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Airline attacked on Facebook for treatment of passenger

It's not good when someone is moved to go onto Facebook to call you "the worst of humanity."

It's most definitely not good when you are an airline and you're supposed to make humanity sit back, relax, and enjoy the cramped conditions and that slightly smelly thing known as food.

Yet Alaska Airlines is this morning faced with having its name being brought into disrepute, with the evidence still a little unclear.

As the Associated Press reports it, Cameron Clark, an Oregon concert promoter was so incensed by what he believes was ill treatment of … Read more

Rescue passengers from a sinking ship

Titanic Rescue is a simple, cartoonish, quick-to-play arcade game in which you rescue dapper little gentlemen from a sinking ship.

The touch-based interface is both fun and challenging: you can touch and "flick" passengers off the ship (hopefully in a helpful trajectory) and you rescue the passengers by sliding a row of lifeboats (and, later, life preservers) underneath the falling passengers. The gameplay is quick, intuitive, and challenging, as you switch back and forth between flicking dudes and maneuvering boats. Passengers will bounce off of boats and full life preservers (although more than three will sink a boat), … Read more

Passenger, 'Do What You Like': Free MP3 of the Day

In Mike Rosenberg's project, the old-soul lyric melancholy of David Gray meets a more spry guitar pop. The effect is enchanting in its weird time warp: this is the sound of young Britain quite energetically understanding its parents' problems, a once-in-a-blue-moon round of empathy.