KLEENEX ALERT: This is a real tear-jerker, in a good way. From the Clovis, California newspaper, an excerpt: Ryan was a special education st...

APOD brings us... Are stars better appreciated for their art after they die? Actually, stars usually create their most artistic displays as...

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.    Werner von Braun

Spent the morning this morning solving a minor problem in home engineering. The objective was to sink some drip irrigation tubing undergroun...

A couple weeks ago, while driving to work and chewing on a breakfast burrito, I felt something hard and odd-shaped moving around in my mouth...

Ali at Free Iraqi hasn't posted for serveral weeks. I've been browsing to his blog every day in the hopes that he would return, but...

APOD brings us... No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds over our fair pla...

You'll recall the recent controversy over how our troops in Gitmo handle the Koran, with Newsweek fanning the flames and the MSM in gene...

A revolution is not a bed of roses ... a revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.    Fidel Castro

Believe it or not, this quote comes from Scott Ott at Scrappleface! I'm not going to spoil the punch line; you'll just have to read...

If you're a technical person interested in digital security, here's a scary one: a team has produced two different documents, each w...

Canada has long had socialized medicine, and its citizens have suffered greatly because of it (I can hear the liberals chanting already!). ...

NASA's Deep Impact mission to the comet Tempel I will culminate on July 4 with the craft splitting into two pieces: the "impactor...

A short piece of commentary from the Wall Street Journal. It's so short that I've taken the liberty of reproducing it in its entire...

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the g...

A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. "H...

Never bring plants into the house!!! Garden Grass Snakes (also known as Garter Snakes) can be dangerous... Yes, grass snakes, not rattle...

Peggy Noonan has a great column wherein she asks the reader to participate in a thought experiment. What would happen if a leading Republi...

Michael Goldfarb, in the Daily Standard , has a fascinating column about a potential kinetic energy weapon he calls "Rods from God...

The always-excellent StrategyPage has an interesting story today about recent progress in the Iraqi "wild west". It starts: More...