According to the latest alarming latest figures¹, there may be fewer than 3,000 Xangans left in the wild.
Please help save these noble creatures from extinction.

They are losing there habitat to greedy conglomerate evil social networks that only care about the bottom dollar such as Myspace and Facebook.
Facebook hates puppies. Myspace Tom beats his kids.
Meanwhile, Xanga often posts cute puppy stories in the cutting edge featured content section of it's ever -oh-so- hip front page, and it's affiliate, Momaroo, always has a handy list of reasons why you should never beat your kids.
Did you know the bible says spare the rod and spoil the child?
 It's true, but only if it's done in a loving way, and believe me, you don't want Myspace Tom loving kids with a rod. At least I hope you don't. That's just wrong.

In uncertain and troubling times of lost key cards and forgotten passwords, there is one constant individual marker that remains uniquely pointed to lead a new era of how the public thinks about security...the human digital signature, the humble network of ridges and grooves that make up our fingerprints, every one a personal calling card that can't be lost, stolen, or forgotten.
Advances in technology have enabled smart security minded business to leave old outdated security models behind for modern options that require the card holders fingerprints to match the id on the card.
In an age of ever increasing industrial espionage and loss of personal privacy, you may rest assured that BIOSCRYPT fingerprint readers are the #1 choice from government agencies to private corporations, with over 450,000 scanners and readers in over 90 countries worldwide.

Today the planet Venus will be visible to the naked eye in the daytime sunlight for the first time since Abraham Lincoln pointed it out in the sky in 1865...look west and find the crescent moon. It should be on it's tip. Be careful not to stare into the sun. The planet Venus is also in conjunction tonight with the Moon and Jupiter. The heavens shine brightly...bringing me to my latest art project.
Venusian Landscape
original bw image from the Soviet Venera 13 landing craft, 1981
(colorized and stuff by yours truly...lots more to come)

""...mission consisted of a bus and an attached descent craft. The descent craft/lander was a hermetically sealed pressure vessel, which contained most of the instrumentation and electronics, mounted on a ring-shaped landing platform and topped by an antenna. The design was similar to the earlier Venera 9–12 landers. It carried instruments to take chemical and isotopic measurements, monitor the spectrum of scattered sunlight, and record electric discharges during its descent phase through the Venusian atmosphere. The spacecraft utilized a camera system, an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, a screw drill and surface sampler, a dynamic penetrometer, and a seismometer to conduct investigations on the surface...."" ~ wki

...that's all for now, folks!