And while I’m snarking about Fortune 500 companies unable to pull their style out of 1997, allow me to quickly demonstrate that Amazon hasn’t paid anyone to look at IMDB in many, many years:


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I was going to cook up a nice long stemwinder about my misadventures on American Airlines this weekend, and about how I really should have learned by now that any money “saved” by not flying JetBlue, Virgin or Southwest is a false economy, but nevermind all that; the intertubes are clogged with angry airplane consumer stories, and will only get ( Read more... )

Long story short here:

If you own an iPhone, Apple’s warranty will often be very liberally applied by Genius Bar employees if you’re nice to them…

…unless the submersion sensor has been tripped.

“What submersion sensor, Nathan?”

Well, funny you should ask.  There are actually two submersion sensors inside an iPhone: one just inside the iphone jack port ( Read more... )