Nathan Fillion, aka Captain Mal “Tightpants” Reynolds of the Joss Whedon TV show Firefly, has posted in his blog about airplane etiquette:
Your space. Especially for us big guys, flights can be tough because of how little space is provided for our enormous frames. For shoulder space, favor the side that has no one on it. [...]

Years ago — it must have been the late 90s or thereabouts — I thought I heard something about RMS getting kicked off a plane for refusing to turn off his mobile phone. Unfortunately Google isn’t giving me much love on the subject, so perhaps I just hallucinated it. Maybe it was some [...]

I’m off to the USA soon: land of compulsory tipping. Every time I go to a country that tips, I’m reminded of the interminable arguments I used to see on Usenet on the subject. You see, tipping is an artifact of a culture which does not pay waitstaff a living wage, and by [...]