TripAdvisor.com names dirtiest U.S. hotels

Travel Web site TripAdvisor said San Francisco’s Heritage Marina Hotel topped this year’s list of the 10 dirtiest U.S. hotels. “This hotel is like in a horrible horror movie! The bed was a nightmare. It smelled like urine and had strange spots,” TripAdvisor quoted a user review of the Heritage Marina Hotel as saying. TripAdvisor, [...]

Seriously?!? – Homeland Security/TSA issues subpoena to blogger regarding recent security directive

I am still trying to ascertain how this seeming witch hunt will contribute to making the flying public feel safe. Can we please just focus on targeted countermeasures that leverage proactive communication and distributed intelligence? From Christopher Elliott: We had just put the kids in the bathtub when Special Agent Robert Flaherty knocked on my front door with a subpoena. He [...]