It’s a toasty one out … might have to go for a dip.

Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg is getting a lot of attention for recently saying that email may become obsolete.

Of course, the death of email has been predicted before: By the Wall Street Journal in 2009, by blogs like this one in 2008, by Slate in 2007, by articles like this one in 2006.

As you can see by this chart, social media usage has surpassed that of email, but the trend line for email is still on the rise.

So the answer is clearly: no, email is not becoming obsolete. Articles about the impending death of email, though, are.

“I am not strange, I am just not normal.”
—Salvador Dali

As if paying attention to the news for 12 seconds isn’t horrible enough, here are six online ways to visualize the BP oil spill.

You know things are pretty grim when one of the “5 Things You Can Do Now To Get Ready For Huge Tax Hikes In 2011” is … die.

(Hat tip to my sister for the heads up on this one.)