These maps of the distribution of religious belief across the United States are fascinating. Not much surprising, but seeing it in color on a map really helps grasp what religion means here.

Europe’s Space Agency plans to plant flowers on the moon. It’s actually a lot less hippy than it sounds.

Call me timid, but I’m not sure I want to fly on an airline that wants to be known as the Wal-Mart of the airline industry, even for free. But you’ve got to give props to RyanAir for giving people what they want in travel: cheap, no frills transportation.

You know of course that AT&T and the Bells want to charge a premium for access to their fiber. Google, AOL and others may just give AT&T the ol’ middle finger.

The Just In Time Strike Augmentation (or JITSA) program proposal for commanding a battlefield from the air is the apotheosis of futurismic as I define it: cheap, highly networked, and out of left field. Basic concept: use lots of relatively inexpensive, small, unmanned combat aircraft to loiter over a target and fire at targets of opportunity. Definitely read DefenseTech’s write up.