Wow this is beyond weird.  Microsoft recently began providing free bus transportation for some of it’s employees in China.  Pretty sweet right?  Wrong.  The bus is full of personal workstations, meaning every minute of the commute is officially extra work time.  I guess they should probably stop calling it “free” transportation.

[via New Launches]

Having just returned from a brief vacation, the experience of going through airport security is still fresh in my mind, particularly the annoyance of being forced to remove my laptop from its case, and not being allowed to put it in one of the 3 bins I already had laid out for the rest of my junk.  Luckily there are now a few TSA-friendly laptop bags, including this FlyThru case from Belkin.
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