As any space-probe-savvy reader knows, Cassini-Huygens entered Saturn orbit on June 30. Well, it’s been getting no rest since, sending back some very impressive and picturesque photos of Saturn’s surface, rings and satellites.

From the Saturn mission’s web site, there are some recent images — quite interesting and pretty ones — of Saturn and environs. Did you know Mimas looks suspiciously like a certain orbital space station everyone but Julien is familiar with?

Probably the best way to keep up with the goings-on of Cassini and his little buddy is to visit the JPL site from time to time, but an easier (and fun) way is to frequent Cassini’s LJ blog. Friend him (assuming you’ve got a Livejournal account – bleccch) and you’ll be kept up-to date. More or less.

1. Walk into a sporting goods store in Arkansas
2. Ask for a gun
3. Fill out the forms for your background check
4. Wait three days
5. Go back to the sporting goods store.
   • If your application came back (declined because you’re an ex-con) pick a different sporting goods store and go to step 1.
   • If your application hasn’t come back yet, you get your gun!

Don’t believe me? Here‘s my source.

Link via Fark

You know that thing when you pack yourself a lunch for (work|school) and you think you’re pretty fucking smart because it means you won’t have to pay for food at the mall or whatever? And then you forget, and go buy yourself a meal at the mall anyway, while your lovingly created home-made tupperwared fare sits in the fridge?

Well, I never do that. No siree bob. Never. Nuh uh.

In unrelated news, I’m an idiot.

The ACLU are my kind of organization: just enough paranoia to be helpful. They recently put together a Flash video of what ordering a pizza may be like in post-TIA America. Check it out.

Link via Boing Boing

Come on, there’s gotta be something about “beasts walking like men” in there. Something about Dogs and Monkeys taking over the world, no?

It’s funny that these two news items appeared so close together… Are we going to see more anthropomorphic animals in the near future? Gosh, I hope so.

Ooh, I sense a Fark Photoshop contest coming on! :o)

If so, show it proudly!

Someone noticed something about Dodge’s logo… I’ve mirrored his page so you can bask in his brilliance long after he is bombarded by derisive email and takes the site down.

Or Dodge sends him a cease-and-desist letter. I wouldn’t be surprised.

Like a lot of the weird links I find, this one is via Fark.

Holy shit.

I’m going to go puke now.

Via Fark

Not to mention the whole “erotic asphyxiation ceases to be fun once she’s unconscious” aspect of things.

Man jailed for strangling lover in sex game

“Well, Mr. Comita, the bad news is that your “new” minivan is actually pre-owned. The good news is that it’s roomier than you thought, able to fit eight full-size corpses. Which brings me back to the bad news…”

Via Fark