Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, what method works best?  With traditional burial, most bodies are filled with embalming fluid, placed in hermetically sealed caskets and then lowered into cement lined vaults.  Nothing speedy about ones return to the earth there.  Cremation might seem like a quicker way to achieve oneness with the earth after life but even cremation has its issues by creating carbon dioxide polluting smoke.  Resomation however, breaks the body down into its component parts very quickly and all the results of the process can be reabsorbed easily by the earth.

2007 was the year of the online identity — and politicians scrambled to keep up. Whether they recognized it or not, the internet was creeping into every aspect of American politics in some very strange ways. The game was changing, and sometimes even the faces of the players — both online and off.

Maybe you heard that a naked dominatrix's slave wandered around Newt Gingrich's forum in Second Life last week?

Speculation is mounting that Google is planning to launch an online 3D virtual world later this year. 

Insiders believe that this online virtual world may be part of a program to develop a 3D social space set in a lifelike 3-D model of the planet Earth.