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Former Playboy Playmate and Baywatch star Donna D’Errico claims that she was singled out by the TSA for a full body scan based on her looks. The 42-year-old model/actress was flying out of LAX, on the way to Pittsburgh with her 17-year-old son, Rhyan to visit a relative who was on life support.

D’Errico told AOL,

I said I was traveling with my son, motioning to him, and the agent said he was to come long with me as well.I immediately asked why we were having to go through an extra search, and no one else was being made to do so, indicating the long line of other passengers in front of and behind where we had been in line. In a very sarcastic tone, and still holding me by the elbow, the agent responded, ‘Because you caught my eye, and they [pointing to the other passengers] didn’t.’

The actress says she believes that she was singled out for a scan because of the way she looks. Her boyfriend, she adds, wasn’t singled out even though he fits “the stereotypical ‘look’ of a terrorist when his beard has grown in a bit, which it was that evening.”

D’Errico adds that she was not given the option of a pat down–an option she would have take. Instead, she was told to walk into the full body scanner and raise up her arms. Her son, meanwhile, was given both the scan and a pat down.

“After the search, I noticed that the male TSA agent who had pulled me out of line was smiling and whispering with two other TSA agents and glancing at me,” she said. “I was outraged.”

We did a bit of a double take when we first saw the press release this morning for the new Acer Revo 100. Sifting through our memory banks (and Engadget archives), we finally remembered: the “Revo 2” with Intel CE4100 shown off earlier this year at IDF. We’re betting this is just a twin and the Intel version is still en route, but for now, the Revo 100’s packing AMD Athlon II Neo dual-core processor with NVIDIA ION graphics, up to 4GB DDR3 SDRAM, Dolby Home Theater v3, Blu-ray drive, 802.11b/g/n, and a multitude of ports including HDMI and two mini-PCI Express card slots for expansion. More interesting, though, is the slide-out RevoPad, which can function as either a multitouch gesture pad or, when activated, a QWERTY keyboard with lit-up keys on the same surface. Software-wise, we’ve got Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and Acer’s new clear.fi media sharing system. When’s it available? Now — at least in the UK. How much? £599.99 including VAT. We’ve dropped Acer a line as to US release details; we’ll let you know what we hear. Press release after the break.

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Sometimes, you have to wonder if these CEO types are being paid the big bucks just because they can believe their own outlandish claims. Latest to try and push the boundaries of credulity is Verizon’s Ivan Seidenberg, who told an investor conference that he sees the company’s newly unveiled 4G offering as becoming a “modest substitute” for premium home entertainment services as offered by cable and online streaming companies. He concedes that for now VZW’s new LTE network will be viewed as an addition, rather than a replacement, to our connected world, but, over time, Seidenberg expects that its presence will be enough to convince more people to cut the cord. Perhaps those who’ll find the $50 per 5GB levy easiest to swallow will be people with no cord at all — the folks in rural areas for whom wired broadband isn’t yet an option. As to the rest of us, we’ll just wait until the economics start to look a tiny bit more appealing.

Update: Speaking of economics, Fierce Wireless has another disclosure from the same conference. On the topic of LTE smartphone plans, Ivan said Verizon is still undecided on pricing, but he sees 10GB a month as the “floor of what people will do,” going on to say that Verizon must “hold firm as best we can until the entire environment is mature enough.” Listen to the webcast of his speech at the link below.

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This article was written on July 17, 2006 by CyberNet.

Microsoft has released Windows Vista 5472 to the Technical Beta participants, which means this one is still not available to the general public. The build ID is “5472.5.winmain_idx01.060713-1900″ which means it was just compiled on July 13, so this is a pretty recent version.

The ISO image is still about the same size as it has been in the past: 32-bit is 2,629.0MB and the 64-bit is 3,545.53 MB. The original keys that Microsoft gave out for build 5342 (Beta 2) will still work with this build which can be downloaded from Microsoft Connect (NOTE: you must be a Technical Beta participant to have access to Microsoft Connect).

The image above is a picture of the new Vista wallpaper that is available in 5472. You can download the full-size image (1600 x 1200) by clicking here or on the image above. I think it is the best Vista wallpaper yet.

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I used to think the best way to grab a nap in the office was to lie down on your belly with an arm outstretched towards a spilled box of paperclips, and your feet touching the door. If somebody interrupted your snooze, the door would hit your feet and wake you, and you could pretend you were picking up the clips.

Then I moved to Spain and started working from home, so I can pretty much siesta when and where I like. Now, there is a third way, the fold-flat chair from Thanko.

The chair looks much like any other office chair but, in that drowsy after-lunch hour the back reclines all the way down, and extra leg-supports flip out from under the seat squab. Both these stages can be operated independently, so you can also sit upright with your feet up on the built-in “ottoman”.

Of course, you still have to come up with an reason for sleeping on the job. I always find “I drank to much at lunchtime” to be a fine excuse. The chair, in black leather, will cost you ¥49,800 or $600.

Chin chair absorbing [Thanko via Oh Gizmo!]

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