Interesting links for March 2007.

• FBOWeb.com
  Flight tracking, online flight planning and services. fboweb.com – “Total Aviation Awareness”
• SkyVector.com
  Online aeronautical charts and flight planning.
• Natalia’s Arizona-Utah Picasa Web Album
  Natalia was one of my passengers on a series of photo flights I did in Page last September. I didn’t realize she’d put the photos online. Some really incredible stuff. All the aerial stuff was done from my helicopter.
• YouTube – Helicopter Whacks Hangar on Takeoff
  My friend Ray told me about this yesterday. He said it had been taken off YouTube, but I found it this morning. It’s a scary video, but has a happy ending, at least for those on board. Stupid pilot tricks.
• Accident Report for Helicopter Hits Hangar
  Here’s the NTSB report for the helicopter accident on video that I linked to. Note how the pilot’s story does not match the video. This guy tried to cover his butt, but the video told the truth.
• Monolingual
  A Mac OS X utility that removes unwanted/unneeded language resources from your hard disk, freeing up a bunch of disk space.
• Could You Live Without Computers for a Day?
  A podcast on FutureTense about Shutdown Day, coming up on March 24, 2007.
• Duping Digg
  A podcast on FutureTense about how you can fool Digg into getting many diggs for poor content.
• U.S. attorney scandal update: Who’s to blame for those alarming Patriot Act revisions?
  Interesting article about how the Patriot Act was revised to give the President the power to appoint US Attorneys to permanent positions — without the approval of the Senate. By Dahlia Lithwick on Slate Magazine. Podcast available.
• Evicted from Wikipedia
  Timothy Noah of Slate Magazine writes about his Wikipedia entry being removed because he’s not “notable” enough. Updates to this story also appear online.
• Rescued by Wikipedia.
  Timothy Noah of Slate Magazine, recently restored to Wikipedia, wonders Is Wikipedia’s ticket to “notability” the writing of one published article about…Wikipedia?
• More on Wikability
  The arguments for Wikipedia’s notability guideline don’t hold up. By Timothy Noah of Slate Magazine.
• Every Bite You Take
  How Sysco came to monopolize most of what you eat. By Ulrich Boser on Slate Magazine. Also available as a podcast.
• Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Daily News Quiz
  Daily news quiz from this great NPR weekly show. Quiz changes daily. Show is available as a podcast on the iTunes Music store and the NPR Web site. Highly recommended, lots of fun!
• Free Song of the Day at Magnatune
  Sign up to get free music notifications by e-mail. The music is mostly new age, world, and other alternative sounds. Magnatune is a great source of inexpensive music; 50% of proceeds go right to the artist.
• Unauthorized Obama Internet political ad converts Apple’s famous ‘1984’ commerical (with video)
  YouTube video. Story on MacDailyNews.com.
• Carol Burnett sues TV’s “Family Guy” cartoon
  Some people just can’t take a joke. On Reuters.com.
• BusinessWeek: Microsoft’s Windows Vista is ‘slow and dangerous’
  Yet another very good Vista review. Very good for Apple, that is. On MacDailyNews.com, with link to original article on BusinessWeek.com.
• Star Trek XI
  Star Trek XI? Christmas ’08 release for new Star Trek movie. From the official Star Trek Web site.
• World gets 21st Century totem poles
  About Twitter. On the Chicago Tribune.
• America’s Favorite Architecture
  A list of the most popular buildings in the United States. The World Trade Center is still one of our Top 50. On the AIA Web site.
• New to the Mac and Compatibility with Windows
  An Apple online seminar. Free, but requires registration.
• Thoughts on Music
  Steve Jobs’s essay on music and DRM. (I know, I’m always the last kid on the block to read these things, but I’ve been busy.) Could Apple stop DRM? I hope so. The restrictions are more than just annoying.
• 24-inch IMac is nearly perfect
  In the Washington Times. It’s making me want one now.
• Apple TV
  Apple TV is now shipping. I don’t watch enough TV to want one of these things, but I’d be very interested in hearing feedback from real people who do. Use the Comments link for this post.
• Phoenix lights again?!
  The 1997 lights over Phoenix is in the news again, as reported on the Bad Astronomy Blog.
• The Evolution of the Computer Mouse
  A photo essay on Wired News.
• Apple of Our Eye: Macs Save Money
  Commentary about Macs on Wired.com.
• Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
  An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission.
• Subscribe to MAKE Magazine for $5 Off
  Use this link (or the code CMAKE) to subscribe to MAKE magazine for $5 off the regular subscription price. Includes the quarterly print publication and full digital access. An interesting magazine; I just subscribed.
• SKY-MAP.ORG
  An interactive, Web-based map of the night sky.
• Rewriting History, and Lying to the Public
  Proof that the White House is trying to rewrite history with new documents and selective quotes from the President. By Chris Mooney on The Intersection.
• How To Run AppleTV on a Mac mini
  From the MAKE Magazine blog.
• Browser Wars Poll
  Browser Wars #8. What’s your favorite browser these days? A poll on MacOSXHints.com