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Because the year isn’t complete without a few silly lists. There will probably be few surprises here. I haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain yet, and that’s on lots of critics’ lists, so that might fit in here somewhere. The same goes for Munich.
Serenity
Broken Flowers
Shopgirl
Unknown White Male
3-Iron
Lord of War
A History of Violence
Downfall
Capote
Syriana
Walk the Line
Crash
The Family Stone
Sin City
Wedding Crashers
Murderball
Turtles Can Fly
Google has launched yet another beta project–Google Transit. It’s only available for Portland, Oregan at the moment, but it’s a pretty nifty expression of transit routes across the city. It even provides the cost for a trip (and comparative costs for driving), and associated walking on either end of the route. Here’s an example, and here’s the official spiel:
Google Transit Trip Planner enables you to enter the specifics of your trip—where you’re starting, where you’re ending up, what time of day you’d like to leave and/or arrive—then uses all available public transportation schedules and information to plot out the most efficient possible step-by-step itinerary. You can even compare the cost of your trip with the cost of driving the same route!
Apparently Google has plans to roll it out nationwide.
On the bus back to Calgary, I was chatting with an Irishmen named Hugh Mullen about Ryan Air, the low-cost airline and Irish success story. Hugh told me that Ryan Air CEO Michael O’Leary is floating a plan to enable airplane seatbacks with video gambling terminals. Apparently they may render the already absurdly cheap flights absolutely free.
Within four to five years the success of in-flight gaming and services such as insurance and car hire could make flights free. "Entertainment is where the real money will be made in future." If anyone got round to paying passengers to travel "we will pay them more". He dismissed suggestions that the free ticket moves would further anger environmentalists who want to see a carbon tax on aviation fuel. It was his job to "annoy the fuckers".
Hilariously, Ryan Air would become less an airline and more a mobile casino provider.
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