Of course you regret something, we all do. One of the hardest things in life is trying to get over that deep, dark feeling of regret many of us carry inside. Thanks to some thoughtful artists, developers and social thinkers, it’s even easier now to admit your sins and possibly find a little closure, anonymously.

With Get Over It, you can simply enter your deepest regrets anonymously, sharing them with a mostly sympathetic public, allowing you to reach at least a small amount of closure. Limited to 1000 characters or less, of course.

A group under the name of the New7Wonders Foundation have started a campaign to have the next 7 wonders of the world named, with results being determined via online and telephone voting. Nominations include the Eiffel Tower, The Acropolis, The Taj Mahal and the Statue of Liberty among many other of the world’s famous landmarks. The goal behind the foundation is to document, maintain, restore and reconstruct world heritage, alerting the citizens of the world to the destruction of nature and the decay of it’s man-made heritage. Winners will be announced July 7th, 2007 through worldwide television, internet and print agreements.

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The brilliant designers over at Coudal Partners are involved in the creation of Shhh, the Society for HandHeld Hushing, a small society providing mannered individuals the tools needed to approach people having obnoxious and personal mobile phone conversations in public, informing them of the disturbance their discussion about their husband’s penis enlargement surgery is causing around them. Shhh provides a 3 page, downloadable kit of stylishly designed cards, which can then be filled out on the spot and dropped casually to the offending mobile yapper. Now we just need some translated versions, starting with German, so I could use these on my morning subway commute to and from the office.

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The Cloud Appreciation Society might be on to something. A small group of cloud watchers, keeping their attention skyward, photographing and documenting the various cloud types and taking advantage of the soothing effects of laying in the grass watching the clouds roll by. You too can take part in the society, either by submitting photos to the gallery or maybe even supporting them by purchasing cloud-loving gear, like shirts or the society’s first book, “The Cloudspotter’s Guide” on Penguin Press. Down with blue-sky thinking, that’s what I say.

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Ahhhh, the United States of America with it’s pride and patents and all those freedom-inspiring things. We can go on for days about some of the shit being granted patent-protection in this country, but, I’ll leave that up to some of our favorite blogsters over at Patently Silly, who sniff out some of the silliest inventions receiving patents as they are granted. For instance, the recently patented bandage printed with the stars and stripes (minus a few stars), which was recently granted patent-protection after several long years of review. Congratulations Anduss; Craig of San Antonio, Texas, you have a winner on your hands. I for one, can sleep a little sounder tonight know that myself and our pals over at Patently Silly can now apply a God-fearin’, US-flag emblazoned bandage to our open wounds, rather than those normal, boring beige Band-Aid-brand bandages.

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Stephen Hawking has asked Yahoo! Answers for their advice on the question “How can the human race survive the next hundred years?”. Straight and to the point, Hawking appears to be voicing his concerns on the political, social and environmental chaos currently prevelant throughout the world to the scholars of Yahoo! Answers, receiving insightful input such as:

Simple. Keep eating, keep drinking, keep defecating, keep urinating, keep breathing and keep having sex. I would say keep praying also, but I’ve seen our culture on an increasingly constricted diet of prayer to our God, or Lord Jesus our Christ, and somehow we keep on keepin’ on. Not very good, but then quality wasn’t a part of your question. God Bless you. – RandyD

[How can the human race survive the next 100 years @ Yahoo! Answers]

Starting in the early 90s, shortly after the first Gulf War, media networks in the US began experiencing a huge rise in both their ratings, revenues and viewership. Around this time, artist Brian Singer spent a year scanning satellite frequency bands and capturing back channel newsfeeds, the raw transmissions that broadcast news companies beamed back to their studios prior to manipulation and editing. The result of Singer’s experiments is an almost 60-minute documentary full of candid footage featuring presidential candidates, their staff, newscasters, and ordinary viewers, which paints an extremely clear picture of how major media networks came of age during the 90s and how the ’spin’ that is created and rebroadcast effects society and the American public’s perception of reality, which continues on to this day (Fox News anyone?). Full video after the jump…

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