Sign up to receive information about a checking account with Wells Fargo Bank and you’ll be sent a code for a free iTunes download. You can get one download per email address you use to sign up. (Hat tip to the Flyertalk S.P.A.M. forum.)
Google SMS is pretty amazing. I saw it recently and made a note to myself that I had to check it out, finally had a chance this afternoon. You can send a text message to GOOGL (46645) with a request for information, and you’ll get a text back in a matter of moments. My first test was for driving directions from Reagan National airport to my home. I entered “From DCA to [Street Address City State]” and I had turn by turn directions in seconds. Then I asked it for a definition, sending “define blog” Final test, how what is the population of Virginia? “virginia population” Verdict: very cool.
Time for dinner, and this looks absolutely delicious.
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Boston’s Logan Airport offers wireless internet for $7.95. Continental offers wireless internet free in its Presidents Club. The airport is trying to force Continental to stop competing with its pay service, claiming offering internet for free to club members is “an unacceptable potential risk” to airport security. (Somehow when passenger pay $7.95 it’s no longer a risk.) Security as a catch-all for prohibiting behavior is a clear risk to liberty. Fortuntaely Continental is fighting it. (Hat tip to David Rowell.)
Via David Rowell, it turns out the the French realize that they are pathetic losers. Maurice Lévy, the head of the media giant Publicis, whose company owns Saatchi and Saatchi and has offices in 100 countries across six continents, said France had failed to get the 2012 Olympics because the world now saw it as a nation of perdants – “losers”. For good measure, he described the 35-hour week as “absurd” and the wails of complaint that followed Paris’s loss of the Games to London as “pathetic”. … “What I wrote was hard, but true. France is not in a crisis, it’s worse than that. A crisis is usually sudden and short, while we are in an endemic situation,” he said. “I’ve just had enough and wanted to say what I felt.” In the article,…
First there was European no-frill discount airline easyJet. Now there’s easyHotel. In keeping with the “easy” philosophy, frills are again being ditched in favor of value for money. EasyHotel is charging $35 (£20) a night for double rooms at its first hotel in central London. Following in the footsteps of Japan’s capsule hotel concept, these rooms are being heralded as Europe’s smallest. Rooms come in three sizes — small, really small and tiny. At 80, 70 and 60 square feet (7.2, 6.3 or 5.4 square meters), there is little room to swing anything more than a carry-on bag. Bathrooms are standard. Windows and a remote control for the TV are extra.
Jacqueline Passey is looking for a lover to travel with, apparently because she didn’t get a job in my office. So send gifts, miles, and upgrade certificates my way gentlemen. You’re welcome.
Through September 15th Delta is offering a 35% bonus on transfers from American Express Membership Rewards. Registration is required. Bonus points likely won’t show up until mid-November.
Via Free Frequent Flyer Miles, you can get 500 free Delta miles for requesting an auto insurance quote.
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