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A second launch attempt for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for 3:44am EDT, Tuesday May 22. Weather is currently 80% go. Watch it live here. For background, watch Miles O’Brien’s PBS NewsHour feature, and SpaceFlightNow’s QA with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. SpaceFlightNow will also have live coverage from Mission Control, with streaming video. (Image: SpaceFlightNow)
Carly Rae Jepsen’s pop hit “Call Me Maybe” is the kind of song you love or hate — or, perhaps more accurately, totally love and crank in the car when no one else is around, but then talk about hating in public. I don’t know your life.
But how would that pop sentiment look in real life?
Reader Sarah sent in this photo of a “Call Me Maybe”-themed business card a friend posted on Facebook. She says another friend relayed a story of a similar card received at a wedding. So either this guy gets around, or the “Call Me Maybe” business card is a terrifying new trend.
At least both the song and the card acknowledge that “this is crazy”? Besides, maybe the dude who hands you this is the soulmate you haven’t met yet: “Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad…”
via Gawker http://gawker.com/5912194/is-this-call-me-maybe-business-card-endearing-or-obnoxious
A North Carolina pastor is calling for the extermination of all gays and lesbians by locking them off behind an electrified fence and waiting for them to die.
APPLE CEO MAKES $379 MILLION IN YEAR…
via DrudgeSiren.com – All Stories http://www.drudgesiren.com/recentTopStories.php
Three members of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Whatever Mark Zuckerberg earned before marrying his college sweetheart is still solely his property afterward.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/technology/zuckerbergs-property-status-post-marriage.html
THR Staff
Though both accusers have withdrawn their suits against the actor, there is a new legal battle brewing between the lawyers involved.
via Hollywood Reporter – THR, Esq. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/john-travolta-gloria-allred-sued-327357
Sneaking Into Pantone HQ: “While the Pantone meetings are traditionally secret, I was invited to the Summer 2013 meeting on the condition that I not reveal the colorists’ identities.” (An older, brief interview on Pantone forecasts.) For Summer 2013: forecast overview – palette descriptions – palette colors. (via good.is: …the Ethics of Color Forecasting)
via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/116160/Pantone-color-forecasting
JoeDough, a sandwich shop in the East Village of New York City, got an exceptionally harsh review on Yelp. Therein lay an opportunity.
Link -via That’s Nerdalicious! | Sandwich Shop Website
Photo: EV Grieve reader MP
I can’t tell if the app featured in this video is imaginary or not, but it’s a great theoretical solution to the problem of douche parking. Douche parking is basically parking like a douche, and is way more prevalent in Russia than in the US. The Village feels publicly shaming is the best way to deal with douches. Unfortunately, one trait of douches is an inability to be shamed.
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Tags: douches
via kottke.org http://kottke.org/12/05/douche-parking