The Daily Open Thread For 8/10/09: PIXAR's First Cartoon!

In case you have never seen it, this is PIXAR's first animated short.

My, how things have changed.

Facebook ate Friendfeed today.

If I was on this plane, I would be the maddest person in the world.

When Link Christin boarded a Continental Airlines flight from Houston to the Twin Cities on Friday night, he expected to be on the ground in about three hours and ready for a comfy bed.

Instead, he was among 47 passengers who spent the night trapped inside a small plane, parked at the Rochester, Minn., airport, complete with crying babies and the aroma of over-used toilets.

The ExpressJet Airlines that operated the plane says the flight was diverted to Rochester because of Twin Cities thunderstorms and that airline regulations prevented passengers from getting off the plane.

Christin is incredulous that the airline couldn't figure out an option besides trapping passengers on the plane for nine hours.

“It's not like you're on a (Boeing) 747 and you can walk around,” said Christin, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law.

Did Intel lie to the public about its MIDs?

PETA, where the hell are you on this ? Why won't you be public about this instead of with Michael Vick?

And a chilling Katrina story that will be talked about in a post latter today. Chilling.

More to come later. Enjoy the open thread and comment, if you want.