An Amish boy and his father were in a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that c...

Some of this actually made the lamestream media, so there may actually be a tiny fraction of the population already aware of the great scien...

And in the blink of an eye, they are puppies. :-) They bark, they bite, they pounce, they wag their tails, and they tumble ass over tea ket...

One doesn’t normally think of San Diego as the kind of place where one is likely to run into rain, much less hail and sleet — not to mention...

As I was driving home from repairing my blog’s server, I got to thinking about the complexity of the technology that I’m using as a hobby. ...

The gods must be crazy. Or at least all pissed off at me. My evidence for this: my blog’s server had a meltdown around noon on Saturday, a...

All this bad news from Iran might just be good news in disguise: The Russians have given up trying to find a compromise, and have joined ran...

The latest from Sheila Miller: The puppies were 3-weeks old as of Sunday. They weigh between 3 1/4 and 3 3/4 pounds each. Their third week ...

Captain Ed Morrisey (of Captain’s Quarters blog) is trying to harness the minds in blogosphere to analyze a small mountain of paperwork abou...

We have one species of hummingbird (Anna’s, Calypte anna ) that stays with us year-round, and the male of that species is the star of our sp...

Chop higher. Heh, as the Instapundit would say… Click for a larger and much clearer view…

Not long ago, Michael Griffin (NASA’s administrator) promised Congress and the American people that Bush’s ambitious manned space program in...

The image at right shows Cindy Sheehan in the friendly embrace of Hugo Chavez, the neo-commie “elected” dictator of Venezuela. If you’re no...

I wonder if Charles Messier ever even imagined that someday his catalog of beautiful objects in the sky could be seen in such detail? From A...

Sheila Miller arranged for a friend to scan her original photos, and somehow an additional picture (of Cosmo, the dad) snuck in. So here ar...

Put down your drink before you read this, less you splatter slightly used beverage all over your monitor. This was written by John Stumpf, ...

As I looked at these images (thanks, Jim — I think…), the thought that came first to mind is that these kids go home to momma and poppa, at ...

Is there anything cuter than a puppy? I think not… These pictures (click for a larger view) are of each puppy in the litter, along with a g...

One of my readers (thanks, Simon!) forwarded the cartoon at right (click for a larger view). It notes — as many writers have — that reactio...

I was having trouble with my computer. So I called Harold the computer guy, to come over. Harold clicked a couple of buttons and solved the ...