Blogs In Space

Blog In Space is a new website (owned by the guys at PayPerPost) that offers alien readership by beaming your blog into space. Here’s what they have to say:

Some 60 years ago humans first began transmitting television signals powerful enough to reach beyond our earth’s atmosphere. Since then the media has continued to broadcast messages from I Love Lucy to the five o’clock news into space, potentially reaching intelligent alien life forms beyond our solar system. Blog in Space is the first entity to allow everyday bloggers to transmit the news and thoughts of an everyday person into space. Simply put we take your feed and transmit it out on a powerful deep space transmission dish.

It’s free to sign up, and it’ll be a laugh to say your blogging into space.

They also offer MySpaceInSpace, which — you guessed it — sends MySpace profiles into space, because aliens love pop-ups and blinky links. Unfortunately, they only send a copy of MySpace into orbit, not the whole thing.

Amusing blog widget? Brilliant plan for alien contact? Another way PayPerPost is taking over the entire internet?

Easy Download To Avoid the Great FireWall

One of the more frustrating things about life abroad is China’s internet censorship. Many common sites (Feedburner, Livejournal, Blogger, just to name a few) are blocked.

The China Dream Blog has an awesome link to a quick, free download that will enable you to get Wikipedia and Blogspot and all the other, um, difficult sites in China. Just unzip the file, and you have American internet, without screwing around with port numbers and complicated instuctions.

Also works if you’re not in China, just very sneaky.