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Kate Moss, unretouched

Above, photographed last week as she relaxed on the deck of a yacht off the coast of St. Tropez.

Back story here.

Camera with front-facing LCD: What took so long?

I mean, who hasn't tried to take a self-portrait and had to take picture after picture, guessing what's in the frame?

Lots of other cool features too, such as:

• Swipe an "X" over an image to delete it during playback

• Tap the 1.5" front screen to turn on the camera

• Shoots 720p HD video

• 12.2 MP resolution

• 4.6x optical zoom

• HDMI output

• 3.5" screen

$349.99.

[via OhGizmo! and DVICE]

Held hostage on the tarmac — Episode 2: FlyersRights.org fights back

Reader Mike Harney commented on yesterday's post about the most recent "flight from hell" up in Minnesota last weekend as follows: 

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Twitter's fine if you want to generate a headline or two and some blog entries next day, and maybe feel cool and happenin' and now about your predicament while it's going on, but why not call the Flyers' Rights 24-hour hotline [877-359-3776/877-FLYERS6]? They say they'll do everything they possibly can, contacting the airline and the airport manager and the media, to get you off the plane as quickly as possible. And they seem to have at least a bit of clout, unlike, say, a mob of thousands crowded into the Short Attention Span Theater.

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I decided to feature FlyersRights.org here as soon as I got his comment late yesterday afternoon, so I found today's Washington Post editorial, headlined "Tarmac Torture," lagniappe.

I especially liked the Post's sub-head, to wit: "There's no reason passengers should be held prisoner on grounded planes."

From the editorial: "'Airline passengers have less rights than a prisoner of war per the Geneva Conventions once the door of the plane shuts,' said Kate Hanni on MSNBC's 'Morning Meeting' last week."

Just as it's unlikely passengers will ever again sit quietly while their plane is hijacked, so with involuntarily airline imprisonment on the ground: the more noise that accompanies each attempt to create an onboard Gulag, the less likely it is that such events will recur.

Sunlight — in this case electronic — is indeed the best disinfectant.

Bonus: FlyersRights.org also offers an anonymous tipline: 877-887-2678/877-887-COST.

You could do worse than to add both the hotline and tipline numbers to your phonebook.

I know I just did.

Deflated Basketball Fruit Bowl

Originally €69.60, now reduced by two-thirds (I wonder why...) to dribble away at €23.20.

Got a basketball? Let out some air, wash it off and Bob's your uncle.

[via laslentejas]

Official ladies' room sign of the potty parity movement

Above, it's in Barcelona's Park Guell.

[via Toni Jetté and the Washington Post]

3-in-1 Pizza Cutter

No, it doesn't slice and dice.

Rather, it cuts, lifts and secures, then serves it forth.

Like a broken drum: you can't beat that either.

$7.95.

[via Crooked Brains and Alistair Why]

Meet Thomas Kvamme — "Basically I am just like Jason Statham in 'The Transporter'"

I can feature that.

In fact, I just did.

Say "hi" for me while you're there.

Magnetic Photo Rope

From the website:

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Magnetic Photo Rope

58-inch long slender metal cable comes with 8 powerful magnets with which you attach your pictures.

Bottom of cable is weighted to keep it straight.

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$12.