An e-card is like saying “I care about you, but not enough to do much.” SomeECards.com has taken the (lack of) sentiment into a whole new (and deserving) direction.

(via Notcot.org)

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I had no idea you could send your ashes into outer space when you die. Starting at $495, your ashes can be hurled to the edge of space and then will “return” to earth hopefully not taking anyone out on the way down. You can also be launched into earth or the moon’s orbit, or just straight up chucked into deep space for around $45,000.

“Scotty” has been “beamed up” and now his “payload” has returned to earth and is somewhere in “tough terrain”, probably in Kalahari with the !Kung.

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The Soviet space program kept both failures and successes a secret. It was only until the collapse of the Soviet Union that most images from their space program were accessible to the West. Though many have forgotten about them, a small number of enthusiastic collectors and conservators have made these images available on the web - modern image processing has provided clearer versions of many these images (see before/after Venera 13 image below). It is worth taking a moment to browse Ted Stryk’s amazing gallery of early and modern space images and Don Mitchell’s catalog of early (and rare) Soviet space images.

•Luna 9 - the first images of the surface of the Moon.

•Reprocessed Venera Lander images of the surface of Venus - perhaps the first clear images of the surface of Venus.

•The Phobos 2 color images of Mars and its asteroid moon Phobos.

Venera 13 (surface of Venus) before and after image processing by Stryk.

Luna 17 image of the surface of the Moon, from Mitchell’s catalog.

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Though most may consider “sign generators” stale and outdated . . . they’re still fun. RedKid.net has a nice collection of sign generators.

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The German Sloganizer just sounds aggresive:

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Have a product/service you’re not entirely sure how to market? Maybe you need a good tagline for a personal ad in the paper? Sloganizer.net has the solution for you. Why stick with one slogan when you can have consitantly changing ones (refreshes every 30 seconds):

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I learn things from Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show all the time. Like the phrase of the day: bingo wings

Thankfully, there are no pictures.

My blog cherry has been popped.

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This rocks: The Band Name Generator.

Here are a few Blogadilla results:
•Fatty Blogadilla
•Blogadilla Connection and The Hemp
•Blogadilla Octopus
•Resentful Blogadilla and The Resident
•Detachable Blogadilla
•Deep-dish Blogadilla
•Blogadilla Step-dad

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A nice video for Arcade Fire’s “My Body Is a Cage” - utilizing footage from Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” (one of the better, yet lesser known, “Spaghetti Westerns”).

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In the right-wing “Free Republic” forums, several Shi’ite Conservatives are suggesting/shouting-for the impeachment of George W. Bush - due to new plans for immigration policies. Many of the concerns expressed revolve around the loss of quality jobs to illegal Mexican immigrants and the fear of “invasion”:

“The invasion of the United States by the criminal army of Aztlan is complete . . . I’ll bet there are another 30-50 million just waiting to invade.” link

Damn . . . that’s why I can’t get that great fruit-picking job.

(via Wonkette, via Susan)

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A webcam and an LED message screen. Say hi to Double You in Spain.

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Greensulate - growable, moldable (no pun intended) home insulation made from living mushroom fiber (mycelia). Cheap and green. Live like a Smurf.

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VitaminWater is the Fruitopia of the new millenium. I felt compelled to make my own labels - the lame hipster monologues on the side of the bottle are just too tempting to make fun of. Click on the thumbnails.

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