I'm sorry that you had to deal with that, and in your case it was 100% the airlines fault if you traveled the same airline there and back. In fact if the travel was in the last 12 months I would send a letter to their corp. office as you should have not been forced to pay the baggage fee.

I had a similar situation in…

Even more exciting imo is the availability of kits to drop a GM Crate motor (ie LS1) into it once the motor inevitably destroys itself (Jag is Jag logic)

Unfortunately for me the GF hates XJ (blasphemy I know) so that project has been put on hold until the last gen XK's get into the 5K range, probably 3-4 years from…

If you are really concerned about it fly southwest, then you have 2 50lb bags and only pay $50 for another... Hell when I travel for 3+ months at a time I only have one bag and its less than 50lbs.

I can see where your'e coming from, but I'm 6'2 235 and would probably have to pay a rather large additional fee if based on body weight.

And that's despite the fact that I workout 6 days a week and have 8% body fat, but then again I am probably the outlier.

Exactly, I was going to get into the cost breakdown but I'm glad I didn't as you did a fantastic job!

No, SFO usually has between 4-5 people checking bags. But if there is an irate passenger, not only is that one check-in person utilized for well longer than the normal 3-5 minutes, but usually another senior person will be called in as a mediator; meaning that the 4-5 people is down to 2-3, which is basically a 50%…

As a frequent flyer people like this confuse me... Do they really not know that they are going to have to pay additional fees when they get to the airport? Seems almost universal now that if your bag is over 50lbs you are going to be paying out the nose... why not just ship it?

Haha, that is only a few bucks more than a parking ticket here in SF

I have a Nook HD that I got at $149 on a whim and I've been having a hell getting Cyanogen on it as the bootloader doesn't seem to recognize the SD card. Any suggestions?

That's a perfect example. I want my tablet to be able to do EVERYTHING, especially the 7" tablet as its designed to be carried around with you and not just left at home.

Within the next few years I imagine that the only input devices that you are going to need for tablets/smartphones will be voice recognition and a…

This. I want this tablet bad, but I need data access and 3G just doesn't cut it.

I'm probably the minority on this, but I use my rear facing camera on my phone for document scanning and bar code reading all the time. And whenever we finally have some AR apps (which I'm sure Google is working on) that are worth a damn, having a rear facing camera is going to be very important.

Gotta remember that…

I get the process and where this post originated from, I just wonder why Matt would choose to share it on Jalopnik.com. Gawker? Absolutely. But this isn't even remotely automotive related (and yes, I also understand that Detroit used to be the automotive capital of the world...)

I doesn't really matter, I can always…

Alright, I'm finally gunna say it... why the hell does something happening in Detroit automatically make it automotive related? If the boy ran his moms car through the front door of the bank then MAYBE... but a Bike? What?

When it came out... Independence Day was AWESOME!!!

How do you run out of money for destroying stuff... I mean, can't some branch of the armed services use them for target practice?

I talked my former boss into buying one of these over the sedan and he loves it. I've taken it up to LA from SD a few times and the acceleration on that beast is nothing short of astonishing.

Is this the same location they shot Casino Royal?

As I saw it, the company had four options: kill the Mac Pro, give the current Mac Pro case a spec bump, evolve the design, or completely change the game.