The Cassini mission to Saturn has been spectacularly successful – thanks to its work, mankind has gained more understanding of Saturn and i...

I work for Service-now.com, primarily developing software that does “discovery” – finding out about the existence of any sort of equipment p...

As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I'll take the roar of 50,000 Harl...

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn 's writings – especially The Gulag Archipelago – played a large part in my personal political awakening. Until...

The indispensable Snopes has verified that this was published as a letter to the editor in the Richmond, Virginia Times-Dispatch, on July 7...

Megan McArdle posted the map at right (along with two other related and equally interesting maps) a couple days ago. Her post is mainly co...

Just a couple of days ago, MIT released a rather breathlessly worded press release proclaiming a new breakthrough technology their scientist...

I'm sure you've heard the news about the earthquake near Los Angeles yesterday – a 5.4 temblor (the big blue square on the map at ri...

Good for some chuckles and ponders... Sent along by Simon M.: Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. One teq...

Last night, I proved this beyond any reasonable doubt. Debbie (my wife) and I traveled to a distant place – the Del Mar race track – to wat...

Recently I purchased a Mac “Mini” for my wife. In general I am very pleased with this purchase – the price was right ($800), it reuses comp...

The American Association for Justice (formerly the American Trial Lawyers Association) has published a list of the 10 worst insurance compan...

The upcoming campaign (McCain vs. Obama) is going to produce a lot of political humor – including the iconic political bumper snickers:

Residents of the San Diego Rural Fire District voted recently on whether to assess all property owners a new tax ($120/year for homes, other...

Just ran across this clip, which caused me for the (approximately) 80 millionth time to wonder just what the hell is wrong with the electora...

Here's an interesting resource that I just came across: a web site that provides current MLS real estate listings for San Diego County,...

Andy Borowitz teases John McCain. The lead: In a daring bid to wrench attention from his Democratic rival in the 2008 presidential race, Se...

Here's yet another fantastic resource appearing on the web: an archive of NASA's imagery . The collection stretches all the way bac...

Those of us privileged to live in Lawson Valley (just east of the town of Jamul) frequently see beautiful mists from a perspective most peop...

Simi L. passes along this collection of insults and retorts. Most of these I've read before, but they're even better in this highly...