Hip profanity. Science Fiction. Now they mix. [boingboing]

The Washington Post has published a mostly sympathetic article about people who believe the government is controlling their minds. The actual likelihood that these people are accurately describing the cause of their symptoms is of course vanishingly small. The interesting angle in this story, however, is that the Internet enables them to find a community of fellow victims to reinforce and support their delusions, and empowers them to do research that at lends a patina of plausibility to their paranoia. [mefi]

Although it’s not yet at the South Beach stage, knowing your genetic predispositions toward disease can help you understand what you should and shouldn’t eat. [kurzweil]

Here’s a very interesting annotated slide show on airport architecture from Business Week. [digg]

Researchers at U.C. San Diego have developed an imaging element that performs like a 38mm lens in a lot less space by bouncing light between two mirrors. Materials costs prevent it from being marketable yet.