"Brilliant vintage-inspired propaganda posters for modern workplace issues". I especially liked this one:



(Via @Earl3d.)

Legal tidbit: If you are a member of the clergy, you can opt out of Social Security.

Could this spawn a growth industry in new churches for Generation Y?

Battlefield smart phones.

Parkour school.

Clever zombie-proof house.



(Via Michael Williams.)

Artificial synapse.

"If Star Wars Had Been Written by Jean-Paul Sartre":

He'll be baaaaack....: "Arnold Schwarzenegger is signed on to star in a fifth Terminator movie".

"Podcast on the Politics of Star Trek"

Rand Simberg: "The Russians are asking exorbitant fees to transport our astronauts to the space station while preventing American private companies from doing the job.

Here's his related Washington Examiner piece, "NASA over a Russian barrel". And don't forget to check out his blog, Transterrestrial Musings.

Although I'm not a Roger Ebert fan, I did like his winning caption for the New Yorker cartoon contest (as well as some of the other entries he has submitted.)

Of course, some of these "Literal New Yorker captions" are pretty good, too...

A couple of recent related articles on mobile phones and privacy from The Atlantic:

"What Does Your Phone Know About You? More Than You Think" (4/25/2011)

"Atoms vs. Bits: Your Phone in the Eyes of the Law" (4/26/2011)

"Fire ants assemble as a 'super-organism'". Includes video. (Via Instapundit.)

"Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors".

Update: Not quite dead yet!

"Spider robot is both cool and creepy"

The current state of high-temperature superconductor research.

Language geeks will enjoy playing with the Google n-gram database.

"The Economics Of The Jetsons". (Via Tyler Cowen.)

When book-pricing algorithms go bad.

James Gleick: "What defines a meme?" (Via ALDaily.)