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“Autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels.”

You may have notice from out sidebar that we’ve played a little bit of Flight Control, a simple but extremely addictive iPhone game. If you think Flight Control is exciting, then this FAA simulation of real events at Charlotte Douglas International Airport will probably get your heart racing.

I’ll set it up for you a bit, because the radio chatter can be hard to follow if you’re not used to listening to it. The blue blip labeled JIA390 is a regional jet with 46 people on board. It’s leaving the commercial airport and planning on taking off from the end of runway 18L, which is the left end up the upper horizontal runway. On the radio they’ll refer to this aircraft as “Blue Streak 390”.

The yellow blip labeled N409DR is a single engine turbo prop with 3 people on board. It’s leaving from the civil aviation part of the airport, and it’s told to expect to take off from the middle of runway 18L, by means of taxiway A (which is pronounced “Alpha”). This aircraft has the radio call sign is 9DR (pronounced “Nine Delta Romeo”).

The that after the incident:

ASDE-X is a radar and transponder system that sounds an alarm in the control tower if it thinks there’s a “runway conflict”.

Werner Herzog is the director of Rescue Dawn, Grizzly Man, and many other films.

Some lawyer friends of mine just pointed me towards a website redesign that just went live for the law firm Morrison & Foerster. If you do nothing else today, please go to their front page and click on “Imagination”. Then write me an email and tell me what these guys were thinking.

There is a detailed review at Above the Law. I actually like the graphic design more than wood-panels-and-old-money look of most law firms. But the site’s content. Oh man. Here’s a few of my favorites:

• The “Imagination” page.
• A page of optical illusions mislabeled as “puzzles”, and presented with out solution or explanation.
• An integrated bookmarking / PDF export system called “MoFolder” (incase you want to save an optical illusion).
• A directory directory of lawyers searchable by “law school”.
Search for lawyers by law school.
• A “Commitment” page that claims they’re so committed that they don’t even have to explain it.

Maybe there’s a killer app on the way, something on the order of VisiCalc for the Apple II, but as far as I can tell, this’ll be the biggest dud since the G4 Cube.

–Cosmo on the iPad. Saved for posterity.