The longer I spend amongst my fellow workers who are extroverts (as so many are), the more I realize that the way they “process their world”...

The company I get paid to play work for is doing very well ...

For the programmers amongst my readers (via Aleck L.):

The image at right, of a sunken Russian submarine , was made entirely with sonar data.  Thirty five years ago, when I was in the Navy, we...

That is not a blue spiral, but rather concentric blue circles ...

Steve McIntyre does what he does best : analyzes temperature data and follows the ClimateGate email trail to expose in detail the games that...

Of all people, the usually mindlessly progressive Juan Williams has a surprisingly level-headed piece on Tea Parties in the WSJ...

Poignant story of Olga Grushin's reactions to the news of the recent bombings in Russia.  She's living in America, but her parents ...

The video below shows a robot , a “copy” of a flesh-and-blood human .  While it's not a perfect replica, it's far better than the an...

We've not felt any aftershocks at our home, but as you can see from the map at right there have been a great many of them (all much smal...

We just felt a strong earthquake – lots of sideways motion, subsonic rumbling, and of quite long duration (about 45 seconds at a guess).  Th...

I haven't watched a movie for months, but here's one I think I might enjoy.  When it comes out on DVD, I'm gonna get it:

Public sector employees, that is.  Reason has a nice piece on the problem , with video. I was at our local post office the other day, pick...

For the past few months, the Google unemployment index has been bouncing around the same high level.  This week it spiked upwards to set a n...

Some excellent bumper snickers, via my mom.  More at the “Read more...” below...

Once again, the European press makes the U.S. press look like incompetent lapdogs for the progressives.  I just finished reading Der Spiegel...

What you learn here may save your life ... Or induce spasms of laughter.  Or incline you to reverence of Iowahawk's satiric genius.  O...

Navy 1, pirates 0 (click to enlarge). May it ever be so (and more like this, please)...

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity .  Humor or practical philosophy?  You decide...

Non-geeks, look aside.  This post can only cause you pain. The Internet that most people know runs on the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv...