Using wireless devices was long seen as a no-no when flying the friendly skies. Visions of horrible accidents ala Oceanic Flight 815 kept us from checking email at 35,000 feet. Those fears are quickly becoming a thing of the past as more and more airlines are equipping their jets with broadband. The latest frequent flyers lining up to install the service is United Airlines. The domestic carrier recently tapped Aircell to give passengers the power to surf via the Gogo Inflight Internet Service, which will run users about $12.95 per session. The new aspect of in-flight entertainment will surely be a relief to travelers tired of choosing between episodes of The New Adventures of Old Christine and a viewing of Nights in Rodanthe during lengthy flights. Other airlines to offer the service include American, Delta, Virgin America, and Air Canada. Southwest is testing similar technology of Aircell’s competitor, Row 44.

Tomorrow the extra large San Francisco club Mighty will take a break from the dancing and drugs in favor of something much more addicting: the Internet. The web trends group ROFLcon (ironically named after the mid-90s chat room acronym) is anticipating a crowd of 300 for its first ROFLthing, a night of short presentations and cocktails to celebrate … well … Internet culture, of course. If Upcoming.com creator Andy Baio on the cult of unwilling celebrity doesn't get you in the door, maybe “Microhumor and The State of the LOL” from I Can Has Cheezburger's Ben Huh will.

ROFLcon founder Tim Hwang, who spends his days working in business development for Creative Commons and blogging at the catch-all U.S. Bureau of Fabulous Bitches, says the event should “serve as a nice state of the union for where things are at and what people are talking about.” Hwang (not to be confused with the Google attention-grabbing Korean singer) started ROFLcon in 2007 with a group of friends to address the question of whether it was possible to get the entire Internet in one room simultaneously. Barring that, the annual get-togethers now draw several hundred computer scientists and social media buffs, many of whom are as interested as Hwang in how to aggregate social networks and content, or, as he says, “clean up the mess that Web 2.0 has created.” If all goes well, the Big Apple could get their own ROFLthing this winter, followed by Toronto.

Like Lost fans, quantum mechanics professors, or McCain supporters, we like to exist in a constant state of confusion…all it a perpetual need for puzzling plot lines. In the webisode series Take Me Back, we follow ordinary Canadian citizen Al on a typical day; tailed by a man in a creepy mask, almost dropping a crippled girl down a flight of stairs, coming into possession mysterious pocket watch thing, and then being tasered and thrown into a trunk. Sounds like a full weekend to us. Two out of the ten eps of the series are currently up at Take Me Back and after a big reveal in the second episode, message board theories are flying. The most impressive thing is the production values that creators Joe and Seth are working with — the set design alone leads us to believe this isn’t the first time these Quebecois have held a camera. Plus, watching web videos is never a bad way to spend a day at the office.