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You're stuck in economy class, jammed between Chatty Cathy and Boring Bob who hog the armrests and won't stop trying to talk to you.

The guy sitting front of you is a death metal rocker with long hair spilling back over his seat and down into your fettucine alfredo. Meanwhile the harried mom behind you can't stop her baby from screaming.

What do you do? Do you ignore them? Say something to their face? Call for a flight attendant's help? Or do you passive-aggressively fight back?

Ever wonder what your flight attendants do on their days off?

So do other flight attendants. Fortunately, there's a social network to remove all the speculation.

Bibafly is a private social network that helps aviation crews to socialize on layovers. Basically it's like an exclusive Facebook for pilots and flight attendants to secretly plan their weekend-long toga parties in Rome. Based on their Facebook promo cartoon (below), Bibafly thinks it's a Wingman Superhero.

Pilots and attendants can download Bibafly for free to their iPhone, iPad, or Android. In their iTunes writeup, Bibafly claims it "provides you with all the information you need to make your layover and the day-to-day much more easy & fun."

The app's blue-and-white colour scheme is similar to [let's say 'inspired by'] Facebook and you collect friends just like Mark Zuckerberg's site.  But on their website, Bibafly describes how their app is much more than just a Facebook for randy flyboys to poke cute stewardesses.

Here's some breaking (eardrum) news:

Last Thursday, an American Airlines flight left LAX in Los Angeles at 3:30 pm. The flight was bound for JFK in New York. But at 6:06 pm the plane had to make an emergency landing at Kansas City International Airport. 

Apparently the flight crew was concerned about a terrorist on board. And by that, I mean an unruly passenger who would not stop singing Whitney Houston songs.

In this passenger-shot video, you'll see the unnamed woman singing Houston's big hit "I Will Always Love You" as she's yanked from her imaginary spotlight.

"The woman was being disruptive and was removed from the plane for interfering with the flight crew," airport spokesman Joe McBride told KCTV news. "There was a federal air marshal on the aircraft, who subdued the woman and put her in cuffs and removed her from the plane."

I'm constantly on the lookout for innovative, offbeat travel gear and gadgets.

Previously I've checked out fun carry-ons like the scooter suitcase, Ostrich Pillow, jetlag-fighting glasses, a suitcase you wear like a jacket, and Knee Defender clamps that prevent the jet passenger sitting in front of you from slamming their seat back into your knees.

Today I found this simple, comfy-looking Travel HoodiePillow.

Soulful hipster not included      Photo: Travel HoodiePillow

It looks like it was inspired by the Hijab that many Muslim women use to cover their heads.

According to the Travel HoodiePillow website, this headwear is made from "premium sweatshirt material," and has adjustable drawstrings "to block out the world around you." The pillow also deflates so you can fold it up neatly. Apparently this neck-saving, eye-sheltering, hand-washable product is ideal for "reading, watching TV, studying, listening to music, napping and sleeping."  

I have to respect a company that considers napping and sleeping to be separate actitivies, by the way. 

Are you addicted to sleeping on strangers' shoulders?

Then get the new EZ Sleep™ Travel Pillow to make airplane sleeping a breeze.

It's basically an inflatable wedge that isolates you from the passenger sitting beside you...so you can finally enjoy a private public sleep!

It's much like a giant border wall that some Americans want to build to prevent some Mexicans from sneaking into the USA. The only differences are:

1) To secure your EZ Sleep™ Travel Pillow, you strap it to your armrest. Which you can't do with a big, cross-continental border wall (yet).

2) Mexicans might like the EZ Sleep™ Travel Pillow

The EZ Sleep™ Travel Pillow's website touts their product as the "world's most effective travel pillow" and promises "the best sleep you'll ever have on a plane."

Your passport's about to turn into a 007 gadget. Whether you want it to or not.

Passport Canada's slick new digital ePassport looks just like a normal passport. Except it contains an embedded, electronic 'biometric chip' with personal details like your full name, gender, date of birth, where you were born, and a digital picture of your unsmiling, superspy face.

Oh, and this is Canada we're talking about, so your ePassport pages will feature images of an Inukshuk holding a giant feather, Niagara Falls, Samuel de Champlain (The Father of New France), Sir John A. Macdonald looking sober and profound, The Last Spike, a sailboat about to crash into Newfoundland, a train passing oil derricks in a bleak and humanless land (you're welcome, Prairies), and children playing hockey and football instead of studying math and sciences like kids in other countries that are totally kicking our economic butt.

If you're wondering 'Why design a new passport when my last one works perfectly fine?', then Passport Canada's FAQ has your answer: "The addition of the electronic chip to the Canadian passport will increase security, provide greater protection against tampering and reduce the risk of fraud."

Passport Canada promises that their ePassport will not contain a GPS tracking device (so you'll have to escape from Blofeld's volcano fortress all by yourself), and will not contain "biometric information such as an iris scan or fingerprints" which of course means they're totally planning to add your iris scans and fingerprints once they figure out how to add your iris scans and fingerprints without sparking a slew of riots.

Despite being devastated by injuries to their #1 center, top goal-scoring winger, starting goaltender, and star defenseman (Jason Spezza's back, Milan Michalek's knee, goalie Craig Anderson's ankle, and Erik Karlsson's acute case of Matt Cooke-itis), the Ottawa Senators somehow battled and hustled their way into the Stanley Cup playoffs.

So May is the perfect month to visit our nation's capital city. The Senators' first game is Thursday May 2nd, the sun's peeking out, the Rideau Canal is sparkling, and the filthy snow mounds have all melted away (I'm referring to the 14 teams that didn't make the playoffs).

Granted, the Sens may not last long in the playoffs. Their first opponent is the speedy Montreal Canadiens who magically rose from a 28th-place finish last season to win the Northeast Division this year with the league's 4th-best record. This highway #417/#40 series will be tough for Ottawa to survive.

But none of that matters right now. Our nation's capital is bubbling with the excitement of spring and deciding where to watch the Senators destroy the Habs.

This video gave me chills.

At Indian fun fairs, some ferris wheels are powered by the sweat of human daredevils.

No gas. No electricity.

Just young male wallahs (let's call them carnies) who take turns climbing up the rickety old ferris wheel. Then they leap and grab onto a bar, using their weight to whip the ferris wheel around and deposit them back on Earth. Repeat, over and over again, until night falls or they do.

If you missed the video posted on MSN last week, see it here. Seriously, check this video out.

It was shot at a fun fair in New Delhi and it's fascinating, hypnotic, and kind of nerve-wracking to watch.

Sir Richard Branson wants to be your wingman at 35,000 feet.

This week his Virgin America airline unveiled an unusual in-flight service that lets you send free drinks and meals to passengers you think are cute.

Here's a picture of Branson holding a woman he found on one of his planes:

Sir Richard Branson, billionaire playboy       Photo: Rex Features

Branson's freshly-unleashed service is part of Virgin America's Red entertainment system. It's sort of like a boozier version of KLM airline's Meet and Seat option where you use Facebook to harass -- I mean 'select' -- a stranger to sit beside.

To promote his drink-delivery scheme, Virgin's founder and CEO stars in a promo video entitled 'Sir Richard Branson's Guide to Getting Lucky'. And yes, he refers to himself as 'Sir' in the video.