the hubble telescope took a picture of two galaxies colliding. pretty. then you think that each of those galaxies has 10 million to one trillion stars, each of which is the equivalent of our sun, and there are lots of these galaxies in the universe. it reminds me that we're really small and statistically speaking there have to be some other forms of life out there, intelligent or otherwise. the article says that it will take hundreds of millions of years for the galaxies to merge and by that time humans may be extinct, and almost all traces of our existence will be gone. and on that high note, i leave you with the pretty picture.
http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/17/galactic_collision/

troops get high when they burn marijuana plants? no!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/12/canada.troops.marijuana.reut/index.html

this would be me if i ever become a teacher.
http://www.youtube.com/v/hut3VRL5XRE

some people would say i need this.
those people are now dead.
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/the_smile_helme.html

From Modern Mechanix in 1950. Some predictions are fairly accurate while some... not so much. Click on the thumbnails under the main picture for more scanned pages. I like the idea of being able to hose down the inside of my house after a party.
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/05/miracles-youll-see-in-the-next-fifty-years/