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For the Holiday travellers among our readers, a tribute– from Frank Sinatra himself– to the friendly folks at the TSA…

via Laughing Squid.

As we rethink the balance between “safety” and freedom, we might recall that it was on this date in 1976 that apneist Jacques Mayol, later Luc Besson’s inspiration for the film The Big Blue, became the first man to swim to a depth of 100 meters undersea without breathing equipment.

Mayol, headed down (source)