My cousin Mike passed along this great collection of word play: I wondered why the base ball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. Police were...

Simi L. passed along this list of metaphors and analogies, allegedly a collection of actual student submissions. Their teachers entered the...

My mom sent this along: Open a new file in your computer. Name it 'Barack Obama'. Send it to the Recycle Bin. Empty the Recycle Bin....

For several years it's been clear that standard practice in software architecture has been moving away from client/server (with big, clu...

Today's Day-By-Day perfectly captured a happy thought I've had more and more frequently over the past couple of months:

I didn't expect to be surprised by Obama's choice for VP, but I am. For reasons that completely escape me, The One picked the man w...

Most of the reporting out of Georgia since the Russian invasion has been the standard sort of hyperbolic, low fact content, unintelligent fa...

The chart at right summarizes the findings of a study recently published at the Public Library of Science (PLoS). As usual, click to enlar...

My wife is addicted to watching the Professional Bull Riders (PBR), which is broadcast on satellite TV. Many mornings as I'm getting re...

My brother Mark explains why he's going to vote Democrat: WHY I AM VOTING “DEMOCRAT” I'm voting Democrat because I believe the gover...

A different kind of wisdom, from some of the usual – and not-so-usual – suspects: A government big enough to give you everything you want, i...

You can read this as a pure joke, but there's enough truth in it to sting: Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the Wh...

John McCain has a commentary piece in today's WSJ titled We Are All Georgians . Here's the conclusion: The world has learned at gre...

This morning I received this email from Kristin Johnson at the National Wildlife Foundation: Dear Friend of Wildlife, According to leaked do...

Great news – Cassini survived the Enceladus fly-by, and is currently transmitting data gathered during the fly-by to Earth. The science tea...

I spent this weekend engaged in three very different activities: programming, gardening, and our ongoing war against ants. Somehow these th...

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...