[SXSW] Please return your chairs to the upright position

Sitting on a jet airliner lofted 20,000 feet above the patchwork farmland of some midwestern state, you can merely look around the cabin to get an idea of where this plane is heading. Every other row is littered with those flocking to Austin for a week of musical mayhem; folks donning Chuck Taylors, flannel shirts, slim jeans, gaudy sunglasses, grizzly beards, and earbuds matching each eardrum. The two girls across the aisle in 16 A & B haven't looked up from their stack of papers containing S...

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