Web Site: New York City Garbage
Have you always wanted to own a piece of authentic New York City trash? Well, now’s your chance. Local artist Justin Gignac collects up garbage from the streets of New York and packages it up in a nicely designed container. Each piece is signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Now you can proudly display trash cleanly where ever you want. What will they think of next? 
Web Site: Santa Badgers
Dear god, the badgers are back! This time, they are in the holiday spirit! Another tune to fill your head. Enjoy the madness.
Web Site: Snow Message
Want to send a different kind of holiday message this year? How about having a penguin carve it in the snow for your special loved ones? This web site does just that. Go nuts.
Web Site: Signbot
Need a digital sign? Or perhaps you need a new way to deliver messages to people? Try out Signbot. It allows you to create your very own animated scrolling LED sign. You can then save it off as an animated GIF and use it where ever you want. Yet another way to waste time
Vacation: SpaceShipTwo
On December 7th 2009, Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo, the first commercial passenger spacecraft. This is the successor to the SpaceShipOne prototype that made history last year by becoming the first privately manned craft to reach space. There are already about 300 people who have paid the $200,000 ticket to ride on this spacecraft when it is ready. This is obviously much more affordable than the millions of dollars that only a wealthy few have paid to ride on Russian rockets.
SpaceShipTwo will be able to accommodate 6 passengers and 2 pilots. It is about 60 feet long with an inner cabin designed with maximum space in mind to allow passengers to float around in zero gravity. Each passenger will get one side window and one overhead window for the best views possible. It is designed to ride up to an altitude of about 50,000 feet atop the White Knight Two launch vehicle (recently renamed EVE after Sir Richard Branson’s mother). Once released, it will use its own rockets to soar up to a final altitude of 65 miles – space! You will then get about 5 minutes of pure weightlessness. The entire trip would be about 2.5 hours. You’ll get to experience speeds of up to 2,600 mph, G-forces, amazing views of the Earth, and bragging rights for being included in a very elite club of astronauts.
Virgin Galactic plans to build about five commercial ships and launch vehicles. The first two have already been named: VSS Enterprise and VSS Voyager. They are looking to start flying paying customers sometime in 2011. If you’ve got some disposable income handy, this is truly the opportunity of a lifetime. Of course, if you are not a trendsetter, I’m sure the price will drop over time as more and more people start flying Be a part of history and book your next flight with Virgin Galactic!
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