Blade Runner reimagined as a pulp novel cover [Timothy Anderson Illustration]

All 786 known planets shown to scale [xkcd]

The Washington, D.C. area's parasitic local economy [Time]

Apple store employees are mainly naif and underpaid fan boys  [New York Times]

What do you do when you find a meth lab while on a nature hike? [Bonnie Jo Campbell]

Libertarian Paternalism Is Not An Oxymoron [Cass Sunstein, SSRN]

Ruger 10/22 compact rifle [Ruger]
How Fark's Drew Curtis beat a patent troll [TED Talks] 
Steppin'In It: Washtenaw County (by Daniel Kahn) video [YouTube]