Not so well, apparently.  Gallup reports that Obama's approval ratings have slipped by nine percentage points. Oh, well.  Just nine po...

So you start a little espresso shop of your own, in a town that has Tim Horton and McDonald's locations.  Those chains capture most of t...

If you're not a geeky math type, there's nothing to see here.  Move along. Wikipedia has a very readable article on the fast inve...

Dedicated to my parents and my mother-in-law:

It does the best job I've seen yet of capturing the emotional state of those people motivated to participate.  Artifacts like this give ...

Via my mom:

Looks like California is about to mandate low-transmissivity glass in cars.  This glass lets much less of the sun's energy through the w...

The Humana insurance company recently had the temerity to tell its subscribers that Obama's proposals were likely to raise their costs. ...

The new book SuperFreakonomics has been slammed by the global warmenists as, well, a pack of lies.  One of the authors strikes back with a ...

New discoveries about Jupiter's moon Europa: New research suggests that there is plenty of oxygen available in the subsurface ocean of ...

IntelliJ's IDEA (my favorite Java IDE) has gone open source .  Woo hoo!

Here's something from over a year ago, but new to me: Dean Kamen talking about the prosthetic arms he's developed for injured vetera...

Absolutely fascinating animated visualization of job losses and gains over the past 5 years or so.  The end of this animation is enough to ...

For years now, scientists have believed that at least one of the major dinosaur extinctions was caused by a giant meteorite strike.  The lea...

Ever since Obama's election, the Senate Democrats have been threatening to use the “nuclear option” to pass bills they badly want, even ...

For the past year or so we've all been inundated by a never-ending series of gigantic financial numbers – $300B for this, $750B for tha...

One of Aesop's fables is “ The Ant and the Grasshopper ”.  Most of us over a certain age learned about this fable in school, or perhaps ...

Via my mom.  I couldn't figure out who originally said or wrote this.  Recently it's been attributed to a contest at Texas A & M...

Great sign, seen at a tea party.  Via my cousin Mike D.