rocket ride for $95K

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A Danish adventurer is first in line to ride aboard a privately funded, two-seat rocket ship designed by a California rocket maker to fly about 37 miles above Earth.

Xcor Aerospace said today that Per Wimmer, an investment banker based in London, will be the first passenger aboard Lynx, a space tourism vehicle designed to take off and land like an airplane. He’s also an investor in the Mojave, Calif.-based company.

Wimmer hopes his flight will come in 2011, after a series of test flights. Officials said tickets are selling for $95,000 each and reservations have been made for 20 flights.

Xcor’s main competitor is building SpaceShipTwo, an eight-seat craft that will take passengers some 62 miles above Earth for $200,000 each.

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freaks me out

but I can’t stop watching…

cellphone gun

Italian Police find cell phone gun in Naples Mafia compound raid.

Thanks Thanks Geekologie

reasons to have sex

From How I Met Your Mother via Timmy.

Apple black friday discounts

Apple is cutting prices on destops and laptops up to $250 on Black Friday. Just go to the community stores, no promo code or anything.

Bruce Lee=superhuman

I can’t even do this with a paddle. Unreal.

eye cam

Blogger Tanya Vlach intends to replace her eye with a prosthetic “eye cam” to record everything she sees. This, after losing her eye in a car accident in 2005. The implant is a scleral shell, which was designed by Dr. Danz

Ew.

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Depressed Mario

I don’t know who put this together (who is Harvey James?), but the more you scroll down, the harder you’ll laugh.

Wolf boy

Pruthviraj Patil, 11, suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as hypertrichosis — or “werewolf syndrome” — which causes a thick coat of hair to grow over every inch of his body except his palms and feet. Source

Pygmy Tarsiers

Turns out these little bastards are still alive, despite God’s best efforts. They’ve been po[o]pping up all over the place as of late after being placed on the endangered list. We truly thought time finally ran out for the little cocksuckers, but we stand corrected.

You can’t buy them because they’re not Furbies. You can read about them though here.