Cassini – NASA's robotic explorer in orbit around Saturn – recently traveled into Saturn's shadow, where it took this spectacular p...

A wonderful, entertaining, and classic Rachel Lucas rant ...

Quite possibly “Rabbit of the Decade”... If only some of our politicians had the huevos of this bunny...

For hard disk drives, that is. The original electronic computers of the late 1940s and early 1950s had hundreds and hundreds of moving parts...

Bruce Schneier coined this lovely term (“security theater”) for the actions taken in the name of making us safer, but which actually provide...

In several different capacities over the years, I've been responsible for corporate IT security. One of the things I did was to test pa...

More fun with the EyeClops! This morning I took the thing outside, and tried imaging a few pieces of Mother Nature. First was a granite ro...

Our wonderful U.S. Marines have pulled off a wonderful prank. Read the link below before clicking on it: http://www.codepinkforpeace.com Ha...

I rarely link to the Huffington Post ; it's the haunt of a stable of liberal/socialist/communist (really!) political writers who rarely ...

At right is a 100x view of part of one needle from a Noble Fir (our Christmas tree this year). I'm guessing that those white spots are ...

Via my mom, the incurable romantic: A man and a woman who had never met before, and were both married to other people, found themselves ass...

From Scott Adams (the cartoonist who creates Dilbert): I'm sure many of you readers are ahead of me on this story. Eventually I realized...

Jonathan Hunt is a reporter for Fox News. Mosab Hassan Yousef (at right) is the son of an imprisoned Hamas leader. Yousef has renounced Is...

Via my mother: As I reflect on 2008, I can say we had a great year: Blacks are happy; Obama was elected. Whites are happy, OJ is in jail. De...

Click the cartoon at right to find out how you can be very respectful of your neighbor's right to ban all guns. And protect yourself an...

Every single night of 2008, over 100 cars were burned – nearly all of them by young Muslim men. Then on New Year's Eve , two nights ago...

Here are a few more micrographs from the EyeClops. This time I've got four views of the same digit ‘4’ from the CI scale of a top quali...

It's been a while since I last took a look at what operating system my readers are using (your browser reports this information to the b...

Why do I rant about the lamestream media? Patterico summarizes a year's worth of just the most egregious “reporting” by one of the cou...