Hawaii is your Peak Oil paradise. Or is it?

Livin' in the future.

* World’s first flying car prepares for take-off.

* First baby born screened for breast-cancer gene.

* Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight.

* Giant plasma TVs banned in Britain to fight climate change.

"What's going to happen in the next five years or so that will catch most of the rest of us by surprise, but not you?" So asks Clay Shirkey in his last guest post at Boing Boing. Via MeFi.

How you will die, via MetaFilter. The 'Filter link has some good secondary information, including this map of catatrophe-by-region. Enjoy your weekend.