Lazy Weekend Links are back in style like leggings and pirate boots so all of you better watch out!  Here are your Links for this weekend:

With some coaxing by Sir Richard Branson, Stephen Hawking is planning to go into space in 2009.

If you liked the photos of the abandoned Japanese amusement park, you will enjoy reading up on an amusement park with quite a history behind it.  Dogpatch USA is a defunct theme park located in Arkansas.  Opened to the public in 1968, it was based on the comic strip Li'l Abner.  The fictional town in which Li'l Abner was based was called Dogpatch.  You can read up about it here.

Can you keep track of the number of inappropriate racial things going on in this banned Betty Boop cartoon?  Pretty ridiculous.

Parents and doctors agree to undergo controversial treatment that keeps girl child-sized.

Cartoons which help teach autistic children about human emotions is being launched nationwide.  The DVD series is called the Transporters and uses real people's faces on cartoon vehicles.

Jealous of the man who bought a fighter jet on eBay?  Well, now is your chance to get in on the action.  Put your bid in for a MiG 21F USSR Military Aircraft on eBay. [via File22.com]

Happy weekend!