azspot: Instead of sending messages asking for money or marketing Viagra, the electricity used sending the e-mails could have powered 2.4 million homes for a year or driven a car around the planet 1.6 times, according to the report.

An algorithm aimed at unearthing the shortest path between Wikipedia articles can reveal a number of interesting connections. Did you know that Jesus is just 2-3 clicks away from everything from Polka (Polka » accordion » John Lennon » Jesus) to Zelda… popular dude.

Of interesting note: it takes three clicks to get from Jesus to Indiana Jones, but only one click to get back. If you can find a path to Jesus longer than three clicks, drop it in the comments.

Backed by a $500,000 “donation” from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, The Seasteading Institute aims to offer a new option for global citizenship: permanent, quasi-sovereign nations floating in international waters “with diverse social, political, and legal systems.”  Rapture, anyone?

The U.K.’s Ministry of Defence is releasing more than 20 years of UFO case files after several requests under the Freedom of Information Act. The files are available to download from a microsite within the National Archives, which claims: “If you want to find out more about lights in the sky over Waterloo Bridge, near misses by pilots, crop circles - and what the UK government thought of it all - this is the place to start.”