Not your usual reason for a flight delay

You are a South African bush pilot. You fly in some critical medical supplies, enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital. It’s a stifling 100° in the shade and you’re eager to get back up to the cool, high blue yonder.

On the way back to your plane, you discover that the only bit of shade within 1 mile has become very popular.

You start calculating the distance to the plane door and wonder: “Do I feel lucky today?”

Interface design thought for the day

Elevators normally have a light that comes on when they arrive at a given floor and are about to have the door open. (This is particularly useful when there’s a bank of elevators, so you know which one you’ll be taking.)

A useful design would be to have the elevator communicate with the light on the floor where it’s stopping. If a stop was requested on that floor from within the elevator, the light should turn yellow, indicating to people outside that they should stand clear of the door; if not, it should turn green.

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This Timeline of Terror Alerts is interesting: it correlates terror alerts and times the Bush administration got egg on its face.