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An old youtube classic: George W. Bush flips the bird. It’s his little laugh after that makes my skin crawl.

While I have gotten lots of generous financial offers from deposed Nigerian Royalty and helpful stock tips from Russian business insiders, spam has never made me laugh. But the other day this image slipped through the three layers of spam protection between the wild wild web and my inbox. Behold! The best spam ever:

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Behold, a comic strip called ‘Fleep’ in which a rather knowledgeable nerd uses his wits to try and escape after waking up without his memory in a telephone booth surrounded by concrete. Be forewarned, the comic goes on forever as the man uses his knowledge of the Coriolis force, the inverse square law, triangulation, rate of oxygen consumption, origami, drilling rates, ballistics, and Simbanese to RSussian translation.

[Click here for ‘Fleep’]

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Story via reddit

Header photograph by PinkMoose

NASA has a huge archive of photographs available for the public to browse. Take a close look at this one of a shuttle preparing to dock with the International Space Station:

What’s that in the window? If we crop and enlarge the image, there’s a iPod clearly visible. What sort of playlist do you think the astronauts listen to?

[Click here for the NASA gallery]

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Header photograph by al-fassam