DIA truck hopes to intimidate fire into putting itself out

The ever-changing Flickr feed I’ve got set up on my home page turned up this little nugget this afternoon. I’m not saying that fire-fighting equipment needs to or should be environmentally friendly, but something about this seems unnecessary. Also, the Flickr user that posted it, “ral11us,” has been posting photos of law-enforcing/fire-fighting vehicles from around [...]

David Byrne: I was BoingBoing-blocked at DIA

Potentially the coolest man in existence now has a reason to dislike Denver.
DIA’s brand-spanking new  free Wi-Fi has been lauded, but I wasn’t aware that it was a super-filtered version of the Internet flying through the airport’s invisible tubes.
Says BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin:
“SmartFilter isn’t very smart. Secure Computing classifies any site with any nudity — even [...]

Death to the baggage system!

Grand Junction’s ABC affiliate, of all places,  is reporting on the planned demolition of the DIA demon automated baggage system that I think has only acutally successfully delivered four suitcases since 1996.
Each contract would cost up to $9 million and last as long as four years. Green says the companies also may do some additional [...]