The most true thing I have read this week: Chris Mooney writes when we have a solar company that’s worth as much as ExxonMobil, I’m quite confident our politics will change.

(And yes, he didn’t write it this week. But I didn’t read it until this week.)

(The Tree, by Canuck Photography)

Maggie Koerth-Baker seems to be slowly displacing Cory Doctorow as my favourite BoingBoing writer. Today, she has me pondering whether or not I would be willing to pack up Maggie and take her to Mars. That’s my Maggie, by the way, and not Ms. Koerth-Baker. Though I’m sure she would make a lovely Martian companion.

On a parting note: A neo-nazi couple find out that they have Jewish roots, embrace the religion, and become active members of the Jewish community.

This morning, we celebrate the fact that we live in the Future.

Phasers? Yeah. We got ‘em.

(Veines et Arteres by Les Queues de Sardines.)

Reading the words that you’re thinking? Yep. We got that.

Super-efficient, self-assembling and self-repairing solar power arrays? Not a problem.

Do you like picnics? Then this is the suitcase for you.

(Mustache Mugs by Peter Bruegger)

So … how much energy worth of oil was lost in that Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Far less than the energy wasted by throwing out food.

Finally … dumpster converted into pools? Awesome.

President Obama is encouraging the development of robotics. But he is also keeping an eye on them, ever-vigilant for the day they turn us.

We are the last to post the following video to the Internet. I have seen it tweeted multiple times, and on every website I visit on a regular basis. It is still sufficiently awesome to include in the morning coffee:

If you’re adopted and looking for your birth father, finding him is not always a good thing.

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