Some linky goodness for your Friday:

• Britain's Channel Five News leads a crusade against "lazy, cliched and cheating" video editing techniques;
• an interesting USA Today story on specialty paint jobs for airliners.  (Check out the gallery, too.)  I love these; they make the aviation experience more interesting and restore some of the all-but-gone dash and romance to air travel.  (One day, I hope to see Southwest's "Shamu One" chasing Alaska's "Salmon-Thirty-Salmon" down a taxiway.  It'd be like the Discovery Channel at an airport);
• Amy Sedaris on Martha Stewart's show;
• Adam Greenfield looks at Manhattan and wonders "who the hell are these people?";
• Telstar Logistics, purveyors of all things cool, explores a B-29 Superfortress;
• I think that most cops do a very difficult job pretty well for far too little money.  But that doesn't excuse the kind of above-the-law behavior that some cops feel entitled to.  This kind of jerkishness (check out the "Dick of the Month" nominations, where cops bitch about having to take the consequences of their actions) is wrong and unacceptable.  No one -- from the President of the United States to the cop on the beat -- is above the law, and to believe otherwise is to invite tyranny;
• oh, and while we're talking about the police:  Photography is still not a crime.  Even if you're a Muslim;
• Apparently, according to Rush Limbaugh, troops who oppose the war are "phony soldiers";
• Wow.  San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders announces his support of gay marriage (and the changing of his personal thinking on the issue) in a riveting, emotional video.  Kudos to him, and I wish more American politicians would display the courage and compassion that he does here.

Comments

[czeltic girl]

I want to ride on specially liveried jets. Hell, I don't even think I've seen one here in Milwaukee. (C'mon, Midwest. Think of the fun possibilities.)

[Vidiot]

Head to MDW...Southwest has a bunch. I saw New Mexico One there and was v.v. impressed. (Though Maryland One is by far my favorite, and I'll always have a soft spot for US Airways' Piedmont Airlines retrojet scheme.)