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Happy Friday with a capital F,

One Letter Off
Amazing fact for today: one letter can make a huge difference. To illustrate, Something Awful made a metric ton of images showing just how much fun you can have by adding, subtracting, or substituting one lousy letter. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/one-letter-off.php

Flushback
The interweb is a slot machine -- if you know how to game it, you can make it pay out. Alex Tew did well with his megabuck home page, and the $999 "I Am Rich" iPhone application recently made its mark. And the latest desperate scam of the week...? (What's the over/under on net profit?)
http://www.flushabuck.com/

Quick list: Vicarious
Problems when you use a Xerox machine to manage your monetary system.
http://shop.ebay.com/items/_W0QQ_nkwZzimbabweQ20banknotesQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZQQ_sopZ12

Mutant mice
Does propagating ghastly rodent/scrotum hybrids count as science?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/2roxfox/sets/72157603025056164/


QuOteD
"Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer." -- Rita Mae Brown


Zombie Harmony
...because the apocalypse doesn't have to be solonely.
http://www.zombieharmony.com/

And on that topic...

Quick pic: Vegan Zombie
http://www.threadless.com/submission/170537/Vegan_Zombie


Gender guestimator
Can this figure it based on your web browser history?
http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/

Game break: Pandemic 2
Create a disease, wipe out a population.
http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/Pandemic-2.html

Life and Death
It's all going to end someday and future space tourist Richard Garriott's has a plan for a remotely stored backup copy of human civilization with Operation Immortality. Leave your mark? Save humanity? Dork with a capital D.
And just to be sure, I had to check Who's Alive and Who's Dead. I'm not on it. Either way.

Famous last words
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower


War in,
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