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Behind the Olympics: Sports you'll regret you missed {Gadling}
Aug 13th 2008 3:58PM I've actually seen all of these sports except table tennis on NBC, although not in primetime. In fact, they just finished airing some water polo about an hour ago, and I watched rowing and boxing on NBC on Saturday morning.
Behind the Olympics: Sports you'll regret you missed {Gadling}
Aug 13th 2008 3:56PM That crazy horse sport is Equestrian Dressage
The Fattest State 2008 award goes to... {Gadling}
Jul 10th 2008 1:13PM Convention food usually is a little on the questionable side.
However, as a Colorado native, I protest your assessment of the overall food scene in Colorado. Perhaps your girlfriends just failed to do any sort of research on where to find tasty grub in Fort Collins. There's a lot of good food there, from my experiences the last time I visited. The fault may not have been with the town or even, as you suggested the entire state, but with the individual instead.
Enter to win a free Tom Tom ONE GPS unit! {Gadling}
Jul 8th 2008 1:30PM My sense of cardinal directions is pretty good, so with that and even a sketchy, questionable map, I'm usually okay. In order to navigate a place without a map, I try to find a large landmark of some sort and get my bearings from that, and then just explore explore explore, preferably on foot, or bike, until I can find a large number of places easily. For example, when I moved to Lawrence, KS, I used I-70 as my east-west landmark, and also the northern boundary of my explorations until I was more comfortable.
The New York City Waterfalls {Gadling}
Jun 13th 2008 12:58PM How is the water for these installations being supplied? Is it being pumped from the bodies of water near the installations?
Basically -- environmental impact anyone?
Should airlines charge you by your weight? {Gadling}
Jun 5th 2008 12:30PM BRIANM: I definitely see where you're coming from. My husband is of a very similar build. On a personal level, I would get grumpy, too, having to pay twice as much for his ticket as for mine, since he ways twice as much as me.
ROB: I think your calculation is probably the best idea offered thus far for charging by weight. It is nondiscriminatory, because it applies the same rate to all people, regardless of bmi, or whether a person is "obese" or not.
Perhaps a "total weight" formulaic -- a base charge per ticket that incorporates x number of total pounds per person, including luggage. Then a per pound charge above that for every pound you individually add to the flight. So, for example, a 150 lb person with 70 pounds of luggage would be charged the same amount as a 200 lb person with 20 lbs of luggage
This still would seem to perhaps affect unfairly those who weigh more because of genetics by penalizing them in terms of luggage quantity.
Should airlines charge you by your weight? {Gadling}
Jun 4th 2008 12:27PM I really like this topic. Although I agree that it kind of makes sense to charge a person who weighs more a higher fee, the logistics of doing so without causing a major uproar or potentially losing a serious discrimination suit are pretty complex. BrianM raises a good point that charging based purely on weight could punish people from a solely genetic standpoint. However, charging only "fat people" creates an application problem. How do we determine who is fat? What percentage of body fat is acceptable? And what about people who are obese because of genetics or another health condition or disease?
Perhaps a system that permits anyone up to a specific weight to pay the base price and then adds a fee for any weight over that would work out -- similar to what used to be done with luggage. Still, difficulties arise in determining what that base weight would be. (Although a non-discriminatory way might involve calculations as to what passenger weight for a particular plane should be to optimize fuel efficiency divided by the number of seats ...) Somehow, I think the simpler the system, the less likely it would be to be discriminatory ...
I'm looking forward to hearing other folks' ideas.
Global sex report: Indians are sexually frustrated {Gadling}
May 8th 2008 11:07AM Both this article, and the article from IBN that you referenced, equating both sexual satisfaction and "good sex" with orgasm, something that the original Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey (available at durex.com), does not do. I also believe that equating sexual satisfaction with orgasm ignores many other aspects of sexual interaction that may lead to both good sex and sexual satisfaction.
Perhaps the focus on orgasm is part of what has reduced overall sexual satisfaction in that partners are no longer experiencing each other as fully, being so intent on the single physiological response of orgasm.
More than 600 rescued off stranded cruise ship in the Baltic Sea {Gadling}
May 6th 2008 10:55AM Not to nitpick, but I think the capital of Latvia is Riga, not Latvia
Win a copy of Green Travel for Earth Day! {Gadling}
Apr 22nd 2008 12:36PM Mmm. Green
