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Don’t sit in seat 29E. What kind of plane? Beats me. But it’s run by Continental, and one man put together an exquisite paper-napkin rant and actual filed complaint on the topic.

I am picturing a board room full of executives giving props to the young promising engineer that figured out how to squeeze an additional row of seats onto this plane by putting them next to the lav. I would like to flush his head in the toilet that I am close enough to touch from my seat.

Airlines should release more of these … and let the people know what happened in the end.

Update: Snopes.com investigates the lavatory complaint!

Sure, they were trying for a catchy headline. PhoneScoop.com put together a comprehensive piece on the state of cell phone use in the skies, and they called it “The New Mile High Club.” That implies that cell phone users on airplanes … okay, you get the connection.

I hate to see the good name of the Mile High Club smutted with references to cell phone use. The MHC is for people who have the courage and the kahunas to get it on in-flight.

Christopher Elliott knows a lot about travelling. He’s got connections in the biz. He was an ombudsman for National Geographic, and he’s covered business travel as a journalism for more than a decade.

On the internet he helps solve travel problems. He’s got a column about travel problems. These problems make for an entertaining read, and usually they have a happy ending, which is cool.

This is my favorite, a tale about a ski trip gone wrong.

• Update: Continental Airlines kills the most pets (but they don’t kill that many) (one was a pet rat) (the other was a dog with a heart problem)

The AP tells us that airlines will start counting pet casualties next week. This will be interesting because it’s a new way to measure airlines (see title). However, with more numbers also comes more rules. This tally could introduce a world of hurt to pet owners — airlines will be more cautious with the pets they allow on board, and some may be more reluctant to let pets on in the first place.

The numbers now are vague. Two million animals fly in the U.S. each year. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals estimates 1 percent of those are killed or injured each year. The airlines say that’s way-high.

Guess we’ll find out soon.

» Read the article, Airlines to Begin Tallying Pet Casualties

I love cake. So when a news article about airports and cake crosses my eyes I take notice. A protester successfully launched a carrot cake at some muckety-muck at Heathrow — where the cake hit they don’t share (why not?), but it did hit. Read the article here.

On a completely unrelated note, here’s an awesome story about a slovenia model they were going to do a “dumb bimbo” TV show about … until it turned out she was smarter than everyone else.

I promise more useful content coming soon — between training for work, a vaction in NYC, and a computer that is having problems it is hard to post.

-Joe