In just five years there will be no Orangutans living in the rainforests of Borneo because there will be no rainforests. Today the continued expansion of oil-palm plantations is the greatest threat to the Orangutan. If action is not taken immediately we will have to explain to future generations that we knowingly sentenced the species to extinction. Learn more by visiting Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation. [via Osocio]

SaveMyAss is a flower delivery service / relationship insurance policy. They send flowers to your girlfriend, wife or significant other on a regular basis. There’s even a panic button for when you’re in the doghouse and flowers are a must. As one customer says, “”I thought my wife would be pissed if she found out about this service. In fact, she told me I better not quit!” Hilarious. (Thanks to Dan for the tip)

The Holiday Matinee vs. Sezio Ping Pong Social last Saturday was a great success thanks to all the fun-loving people who shuffled on over in their finest tennis whites. When raising money to support the arts is as easy as sipping on mimosas in the Southern California sun and engaging in some friendly rivalry, we can’t help but smile. Big thanks to Greg Strangman from the Pearl for hosting and all our sponsors who chipped in with drink specials and great prizes for our winners. A full gallery of photos is available here and our “Gameface” disposable project photos are coming soon.

Now, I’m all for a future of moon colonies and food capsules but it seems to me like Volkswagen might be getting ahead of themselves on this one. That being said, the thing gets 240mpg, so if they actually start producing them in 2013 like they suggested then I’ll probably take a closer look. I just don’t know if I can handle the cockpit seating, I think Chevy really got it right with the bench seating in the El Camino, and the whole single file idea just seems unnatural, call me old fashioned. I did like Top Gun though, so maybe I could get into it. If nothing else though, we can take this as a sign that car companies are moving in the right direction.

My high school cafeteria always had stacks of milk crates, but I never had the genius idea to paint them vivid colors and throw them together for the sake of art. ‘Crate Man‘ is an awesome project by an incognito street artist in Melbourne that we love because it pushes the boundaries of graffiti laws in a creative new way. Just don’t call them legos. [via PSFK]

Love this photo on so many levels. Nostalgic. Youthful. Inspiring. There’s no better time to take a jump than right now. Go for it and go hard!

For all the shorthand web-speak and texting that goes around, I’m thankful that there are still people out there finding creative ways to encourage the use of a broad vocabulary. Artwiculate posts a word of the day and invites followers to use it in a sentence via Twitter. Visitors to the site then vote to select a winner. It’s not for everyone, but avid readers and Scrabble players should dig this. I’m hoping they hook up with Amazon soon to offer prizes to the winners. [via SwissMiss]