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  http://www.labspaces.net/ A true nerd site this week. LabSpaces.net is a social network for the scientific community designed to spread scientific news, maintain and create friendships, and harbor collaboration through the internet. The site serves as a web profile for researchers and labs, and is also a community for active communication in the sciences.

  http://www.lettersofnote.com Letters of Note is what it sounds like, a collection of various entertaining historical correspondences worth a moment of your time.  This one sealed the deal for me – Laura Huxley’s letter recounting the death of her husband – http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/03/most-beautiful-death.html

http://nationalpinballmuseum.org In honor of their opening day today in Baltimore.  Art, science and pop culture collide!

http://www.creativeapplications.net/ One digital art blog worth a lengthier look.  

http://aviationintel.com/   “Where strategy, technology and opinon meet at the speed of sound.” A great aviation tech blog that seems to regularly nab juicy stuff.  The writing is also entertaining and not dry wonk drone.

http://videojs.com/ A free, open source HTML 5 video player, for folks like me, who now need such a thing… thanks to the ghost of Steve Jobs.

http://www.decide.com/ One for all you consumers… a great site for deciding when to by a particular electronic device.  Thanks to Floyd for this one.  It’s oddly addictive to check out the price graphs.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html The Mars Science Lab just successfully launched and is headed to Mars.  Check out the details of what this mission has planned.

https://passcloud.me/ This site is a project of This is Hell producer, Spencer Thunderball Thayer, who describes it as “…a one-way hash password generator that doesn’t store any of your sensitive data but will let you retrieve your passwords from anywher.” “Increase your security online by avoiding the risky practice of reusing the same password across [...]

http://seaquence.org A little pleasant distraction from all the hellishness that abounds around. Become the musical genius you always suspected in a aural petri dish of you own making.

http://www.i-programmer.info Real good geekery.

http://visual.ly/ An infographics site worth keeping an eye on even though it isn’t completed yet.  The promised creation tools are not in place, but the collection of data visualizations is pretty sweet.