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Puerto Rican David Morales Col�n died in a gun-related incident last week and his family decided to creep out all his friends and loved ones by mounting his dead body on a motorcycle for his wake.

Can 'Only in Puerto Rico' be the new 'Only in Japan'? Because, seriously? This is some freaky shit.

Although, if this guy was Japanese, his family would probably pose around him and take pictures with his corpse. So, yeah, Japan is still weirder.

[via Geekologie]

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If you thought Weekend at Bernie's II was bad,
you should've seen the European remake.

Two women were arrested after they tried to take the body of a dead relative on to a plane in Liverpool. According to BBC News, "Staff became suspicious when they tried to check in 91-year-old Curt Willi Jarant, who was wearing sunglasses, for a flight to Berlin on Saturday."

The women, his widow and step-daughter, claimed they thought he was asleep. They were later arrested for failing to give notification of death. And for reenacting a cheeseball '80s comedy.

Okay, so the last part isn't true. But come on! If you're going to go for it, go for the gold! Of all the gems of the '80s, you play out Weekend at Bernie's? At least dance through detention or steal a baby or travel in the DeLorean time machine…do something awesome! Don't just throw sunglasses on your dead step-dad and book him a flight to Germany.

Gah! Bad remakes are the worst! I'm looking at you,�Planet of the Apes. I'm looking directly at you.

So this is popular on the Internet… again…

I saw the image above was popular on Reddit earlier in the week.� After doing a bit of research, I discovered the pic is actually kind of old, so I refrained from posting it.� Then it popped up again on some other sites like YepYep and I figured, why they hell not.� It seems like something you guys would enjoy.

There's a site called TinEye that is a reverse image search, allowing you to see where else an image has appeared on the web.� Reverse searching this image returns 78 results, which is a lot by TinEye standards.

You can find evidence of its popularity dating all the way back to 2007… maybe even further.� It comes in all shapes and sizes, as an image macro, even as an avatar.

And here it is again.� Shooting to the top of Reddit and circling about the web.

What I've learned about the Internet…� People never get tired of seeing a mouse having sex with another dead mouse in a mouse trap.

Sick, world.� Sick.

Ha!

It's funny because one guy died and now you can have his job.

News feeds crack me up.

[via Bits & Pieces]

Brad L. Graham (seen above) — the man who is credited with first coining the term "blogosphere" (as can supposedly be found here) — has passed away at the age of 41.

But don't worry…� He'll always live on… In the blogosphere.

That is, until computer technology becomes obsolete and blogs are disregarded.� Then he'll die a second, more final death.

Something to look forward to.

[via The Daily What]

It's a question almost as old as life itself: What do you do with someone's Facebook account after they die?

Well, little known to me, and apparently, due to the coverage it has gotten today, little known to many people, Facebook actually has an official policy for "memorialized" profiles.

Here's a portion of what Max Kelly wrote today on the Facebook blog:

"When someone leaves us, they don't leave our memories or our social network. To reflect that reality, we created the idea of 'memorialized' profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who've passed.

We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it's important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized."

I especially like the use of the term "important."� It is important.� In fact, contacting Facebook when someone dies might even be more important than organizing funeral arrangements or allowing yourself a proper grieving period.

Because no one is going to run into your deceased friend's funeral and yell, "Dude, why didn't you reply to my Halloween event invite??? Dat party kicked ARSE!!!!"� But someone might do that on his or her Facebook page, and that could be a difficult reminder of how flaky your friend was with responding to Facebook invites.

From here on out, it's probably in all of our best interests to include who should handle our Facebook profile after we die in our will.� It's just being polite.

[via BoingBoing]

This week's unclaimed domain:

ZachBraffIsDead.com

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This week, there was a scare on Twitter that Zach Braff was dead. You can read about it at Urlesque, but to summarize: Zach Braff is not actually dead. That whole thing got me thinking… How could someone profit off this hoax? With a website.

Here are some things you could do with ZachBraffIsDead.com:

• Make a conspiracy theory message board which purports that Zach Braff actually is dead.
• List of ways the writers could kill J.D. (Zach Braff) in Scrubs, thus complying with his contract of only six more episodes.
• Do nothing with it until Zach Braff actually dies, then sell the site for a lot of money.
• Or, just buy it and forward it to the Tosh.0 Blog!

Zach Braff probably has at least another 60 years in him — but this domain does not! Buy it before someone else does. If you're not sure how to buy a domain name, here's the scoop.

I'm pretty excited about last week's unclaimed domain name, WasFeed.com (a play on BuzzFeed). Someone's setting it up on a blogging platform — it might actually be a real site some day…

I'm as sick of the "look-at-this-funny-Facebook-screengrab" Internet trend as the next guy.� I'm sure half of them are as fabricated as a Google suggestion screengrab.

But I think the one above is real… and here's why…

Uncle Bernie hated bad grammar, was a stickler for poor spelling.� A former editor at the Daily Herald — suburban Chicago's largest daily newspaper — the English language was his passion.

He'd recently decided to check out Facebook for the first time, specifically to see pictures he'd heard his niece had posted on the Internet of their recent trip to Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois.� It had been a delightful trip.� They'd ridden the coasters together.

Upon seeing the phrase "time for yoggggggga." with no capitalization and 7 "g's," he collapsed: dead of a heart-attack.

Which is why it makes perfect sense for this person's mom to leave this information as a reply to that particular status update.

Obviously.

From Buzzfeed:

Before his untimely death, Heath Ledger began directing a video for Modest Mouse's ?King Rat?. Unfortunately he died before the video was completed, and it has been languishing in limbo until now.

I watched this video.� Oddly enough, Heath Ledger is still dead.