Michael Yon has another excellent dispatch, this time not about war.  As usual, his article is well-researched and lavishly illustrated with...

Out with the dogs at 3:30 as usual.  The sky was clear and beautiful once again, with the Milky Way bright and straight overhead.  A quarter...

Nice collection of UNIX/Linux/BSD tools , organized and classified...

Only a liberal administration could publish this memo with a straight face: the Inspector General reports that the Census Bureau says it tha...

Interesting article by Daniel Klein over at the WSJ.  I'm not surprised at the results: libertarians and conservatives, on average, und...

Well, that's what their tourist bureau thinks.  Here's their advertising video to tell you all about it: My first reaction on v...

Via my mom:

...and no conscience in sight ...

Victor Davis Hanson on Turkey's hypocrisy ...

Fred Barnes outlines why this rumor circulating in Washington just might be true ...

Arthur Laffer has some grim prognostications on future taxes .  Gulp.  Just what I needed to read on a Monday morning...

The Spirit rover has found clear evidence of carbonate rocks on Mars .  Carbonate rocks form only in neutral or alkaline water, in condition...

It's easy: spend time in nature .  This is one reason I choose to live out in the boonies – it makes me feel better...

A fascinating online collection of very early (~1910) color photos, using a technique called “autochrome”...

Nicola Scaffetta has posted an interesting paper over at Watts Up With That?   The paper presents a model for climate change that's dri...

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Yesterday a colleague of mine (Aleck L., a software engineer) visited us.  He's a young guy (28) who has spent most of his life in a cit...

Sums it up pretty nicely...

In the space of just 24 hours, Watts Up With That? posts about how the Pacific Islands aren't really sinking , the arctic ice isn't...

Steve McIntyre: Did any of you know that the US supposedly has a National Contingency Plan for dealing with very large oil spills? And th...