Monday links

May 4th is International Respect for Chickens Day: here are lots of chicken-related links to help you celebrate.

Not as interesting as chickens, of course, but May the Fourth (be with you) is also Star Wars Day. Related: a nice collection of Star Wars propaganda posters.

That time the NSA banned the Furby.

Map: What Does Each State Have More Of (Per Capita) Than Any Other?

What happens to someone when they get tarred and feathered?

Inside The Fed's Cold War "Doomsday" Bunker.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include Willie Nelson's personal brand of marijuana, a 19th century seal fur g-string, and a 102-year-old dancer watching, for the first time, film of herself performing.