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He’s doing it again, in fact. Now don’t you feel worthless? he’s out there doing things for other people. He’s making their world spin a little brighter. And there you are shoving Cheetos in your hole.

Feel guilty yet?

Good.

Now cure that guilt the old fashinoned way…by giving away money.

If you sponsor 7d, YOU will be the ones making some other soul’s world spin a little brighter and you won’t even have to lift a finger.

That’s what some call a win/win situation.

Fill yourself with awesome and win. Sponsor 7d on his Relay for Life for Cancer.

(fabulousity link via 7d)

President George W. Bush will honor the surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen with a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award given by Congress, at a ceremony on Thursday at the U.S. Capitol.

The airmen helped lay the groundwork for the civil rights movement and influenced President Harry Truman’s decision to desegregate the army in 1948.

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In all, about 1,000 pilots were trained, and also ground crew. Fewer than a third of the pilots are still alive to receive the medal.

“We had the feeling that the program was designed to fail,” said one of the pilots, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Charles Dryden, who graduated from the school in 1942.

“Our mantra was that we dared not fail because if we did, the doors of future aviation would be closed to black people forever,” he said in an interview at his home in Atlanta.

Dryden, 86, who stayed in the Air Force after World War Two, recalled the “horrible discrimination” he faced and said he decided to stay away from whites in Alabama as far as possible to avoid breaking the racial mores of the south.

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“I had a deep feeling of fear,” he said of his first combat encounter. “It wasn’t about the enemy, it was about myself … But the first time I saw the enemy I ran (flew) toward him and I knew that I was a tiger and not a pussy cat.”

On graduating from the flying school, he rode the train back to New York wearing his uniform.

“As I was proudly preening my way through the terminal a little white lady said: ‘Here Boy. Carry my bags.”‘ The remark angered him but taught him a lesson. “It humbled me. It taught me: It’s not the uniform that counts, it’s what’s inside.”

(via yahoo news)

Whoever thought of this photo shoot was a damn genius.

their real guilt l-r: Bell(being sexy), Shannon(crazy funny), Fugit(geekly cool)

This happened at Sundance.

(via ontd: page one, page two and the official Jane Magazine link)

“I was a little bit drunk myself but felt something brush my breast. I thought it couldn’t be the future king… “

“So many dark places that I’ve gone in my life and in my music this past year… it’s a real wonder that I’m alive.”–Marilyn Manson

Michael Jackson is in discussions about creating a 50-foot robotic replica of himself to roam the Las Vegas desert…

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It has now been claimed that his plans include an elaborate show in Vegas, which would feature the giant Jacko striding around the desert, firing laser beams.

If built, the metal monster would apparently be visible to aircraft as they come in to land in the casino capital.

It is the centre-piece of an elaborate Jackson-inspired show in Vegas, according to Andre Van Pier, the robot’s designer.

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“It would be in the desert sands. Laser beams would shoot out of it so it would be the first thing people flying in would see.”

(silliness found here, here, and here)

One of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole.

Rather than the normally sinuous cloud structures seen on all planets that have atmospheres, this thing is a hexagon.

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“This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides,” said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “We’ve never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn’s thick atmosphere, where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate, is perhaps the last place you’d expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.”

The hexagon is nearly 15,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it. The thermal imagery shows the hexagon extends about 60 miles (100 kilometers) down into the clouds.

At Saturn’s south pole, Cassini recently spotted a freaky human eye-like feature that resembles a hurricane.

Scientists say Voyager 1 and 2 photographed it more than two decades ago. The Cassini spotting confirms it’s a “long-lasting oddity.”

Huh.

WATCH: The moving picture show of Saturn’s hexagon.

More on Saturn:

• There’s a Large Body of Liquid on Saturn
• There’s a Storm Churning on Saturn
• Saturn has a Pearl Necklace
• The Earth as it is from Saturn
• Saturn’s Moon Hyperion has Odd Rice Crispy Design
• Mimas: “Death Star” of Saturn

(via usatoday and 7d who’s doing Relay for Life for Cancer again this year )

Movie: THE TV SET (David Duchovny’s got new awesome. Most excellent.)

Two other favorable trailers through the rabbit hole.

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In case you have not noticed I have an insatiable love of dinosaurs. If I had my way, we’d all worship the mighty Supersaurus and its bloodlust for vegetation.

XKCD.COM has irrational velociraptor fear. And Daniel Snyder, PhD has seen fit to provide a homemade dromeosaurid deterrant for our fair hero XKCD.COM

Thus, I recommend you carry around a loaded SuperSoaker filled with Concord grape juice. Fresh-squeezed would be ideal, but from concentrate should be effective as well. This will not only have the theoretical asset of protecting you from Velociraptor, it will have the pragmatic asset of protecting you from thirst.

Dr. Daniel, you will pay dearly for usurping our dinosaur masters.

(via the brilliant xkcd.com)

These little feed bits populated all of the ScFi Channel in the 90s. They seem quaint, looking on them now. I miss them.

Maybe one day SciFi Channel will return to being more science fiction and less flash-in-the-pan zomg we’re being attacked by giant insects/nature-gone-mad/bears*/the-hubris-of-mankind television.

(via retro YouTube)

*Not just any kind of bears. Mutants Bears from another planet that look just like our bears only the Mutie Bears have a penchant for killing, and eating, humans.

I shit you not.

The Universe is an odd and complex thing. In order to fully appreciate Doogtoons funny(if not a bit long) video of Weird Al’s “Trapped in the Drive-Thru” you first have to suffer through, or have a passing knowledge of, the purile, idiocy of the original “Trapped in the Closet.”

The Universe has a bastard’s sense of humor.

(via trapped on YouTube and ONTD)