Hyperlinkminded.

Alaska Airlines chairman and chief executive officer, Bill Ayer:

We are pleased to report record adjusted earnings for the second year in a row,” said Bill Ayer, chairman and chief executive officer. “The improvement was due to schedule optimization and network expansion, high load factors, lower non-fuel unit costs, and industry-leading customer service and operational performance.

Very proud of all my colleagues that contributed to making last year such a success.

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Canadian poet and novelist John Degen, on Wikipedia’s stance on SOPA:

Tomorrow, when Wikipedia turns the lights back on, and folks look up SOPA and PIPA to find out what happened, does anyone believe there will be a balanced, unbiased Wikipedia entry on the subject? How unbelievably sad.

I had failed, through all the blackout buzz today, to even consider the implications of Wikipedia publicly taking a stance on a newsworthy and important event. It’s already caused one Wikipedian to resign.

Andrew Sullivan on Obama’s promises:

Politifact recently noted that of 508 specific promises, a third had been fulfilled and only two have not had some action taken on them. To have done all this while simultaneously battling an economic hurricane makes Obama about as honest a follow-through artist as anyone can expect from a politician.

And:

What liberals have never understood about Obama is that he practices a show-don’t-tell, long-game form of domestic politics. What matters to him is what he can get done, not what he can immediately take credit for.

Great piece.

Survivors from a luxury cruise ship that ran aground and tipped over, leaving at least three dead and 69 people still unaccounted for, described Saturday a chaotic evacuation.

Great new site from Brian Lam of Gizmodo fame that highlights the best gadgets.

Brian has the following to say about the site:

Even though I will be blogging occasionally, The Wirecutter is not another tech blog. The Wirecutter is mostly a list of amazing gadgets.

He also had the following to say, and it made me smile:

Headlines like this: “Exclusive: Motorola Spyder (Droid RAZR for Verizon?) features industry-first qHD Super AMOLED display, LTE, dual-core processor.” Or “Why Not All Jurassic Park Characters Were Created Equal.” No offense meant, but I do not want to spend my remaining days writing stuff like this.

Yesterday was a big day for the mobile phone industry, and no I’m not talking about the unveiling of the Nokia Lumia 900, (even though I’m personally excited about that device).

Five year’s ago yesterday, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone to the world. It was unlike anything we had every seen, almost like it was from the future. Then Steve said this:

Now, software on mobile phones is like baby software. It’s not so powerful. And today, we’re going to show you a software breakthrough. Software that’s at least 5 years ahead of what’s on any other phone.

So if five years have passed, do you think the other mobile operating systems have caught up? Dan Frommer say yes and no, but I really like what Shawn Blanc has to say on the topic:

You can use Apple’s ideas and you can copy their products, but you cannot copy the time and energy they put into those products, and you cannot copy their attention to detail. Those you have to do on your own. Five years later, some companies still haven’t figured that out.

It’s not the phone’s hardware or software that other companies have to catch up to; it’s the high-quality experience the Apple brand delivers on a very consistent basis. To me that’s where Apple is still ahead.