Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century

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Three things Al Gore and I have in common:

1. A shocking disregard for organization and/or filing. (Shanon, are you reading this?)
2. A fondness for computer hardware with images of partially eaten fruit laser-etched into them.
3. Neither of us are running for president.

Photo via Time.

From Slate.com, regarding the USPS’ new “forever stamp” that you can buy today and use whenever you want regardless of what happens to postal rates in the future:

The 20-cent stamp from 1981 would be equivalent to 45 cents in today’s dollars—which makes today’s rate 10 percent cheaper than it was 26 years ago. Should this historical pattern hold, you’d be paying more for today’s forever stamps than you would for any stamp in the future, no matter how high the rate goes.

So how long until postage is free? Had I been paying attention in school, I could answer that.

Via Kottke.

Damn those evil product development people at Lego and Lucasfilm. Damn them. Don’t they have enough of my money already!?!

Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon

I was late to about a hundred meetings when Daylight Savings moved up and apparently it was all for naught. Moving an hour of daylight from the morning to the night did nothing to save energy. Nothing at all. Sigh.

Via Kottke

I’d like to think this is an April Fool’s joke, but it’s not. PalmTreeDirect.com will deliver any of seven different varieties of palm tree direct to your Minnesota home for as little as $399 (and as high as $2,000). From their FAQ:

The majority of our clients treat their northern palm as an annual.  They have fully recouped their investment with the hours of enjoyment they spent sitting in its shade, staring in amazement, and telling friends about the neat benefits of having their own personal paradise.

“Staring in amazement.” As in, amazement that you’ve been talked into planting a tree that will die sometime around Halloween. Of course, there’s nothing more festive than snow softly falling on the boughs of your dead, dead palm tree at Christmas…