A heap of links this morning…

Firstly, a member of the Privacy Committee of the Department of Homeland Security was dared to try to fly without ID from San Francisco. What the guy found was that although he had his bags checked more carefully than everyone else, he actually spent less time in lines waiting to get through security. Not a bad effort really. CNN is reporting on a hotel that offers to store your mobile devices away from you so that people addicted to connectivity from their phones or laptops can ‘detox’.

Escape on News.COM.AU has the story of a Brisbane Couple who won a Vogue competition to visit 12 hotels around the world – top hotels that is. But the thing is that the wife then wrote about it, and it has just been published in a book called ‘Absolutely Faking It’ which sounds like a really interesting book.

Finally, ZDNet has a heap of stories on the IT behind the Soccer World Cup.