I'll leave it to (many) others to write his obituary.  Here I want to talk about another issue: his successor. Replacing a Senator is ...

“Non-Newtonian fluid” is just a fancy way of naming a liquid that gets thicker when you disturb it. The liquid in the video is a mixture ...

Via my mom: And GOD Created New Jersey ... GOD was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael, the archangel, found him, resting on the se...

Biden's defeatist attitude reminds me very much of Jimmy (“wear a sweater”) Carter. Whatever else happens this November, I hope the e...

The headline reads “Pope deplores Belgian sex raids, stresses autonomy.”  This is in reaction to the Belgian police searching the home and ...

This is today's Unemployment Index (of unemployment-related Google searches ).  The big dip from mid-April to early June has been erased...

I would never have guessed that this was possible .  Years ago I read an article describing an algorithm for converting a 3D software mode...

...that I no longer program in C.  Reason #2,496: I don't need spiral expression decoding rings .

Lots of pronouncements (e.g., a five-year “deadline” for Afghanistan, condemnation of North Korea's sinking of a South Korean naval vess...

Here's a very accessible (no math, for you mathophobes) explanation of why ice melting doesn't raise sea levels in the manner you m...

Donald Rumsfeld was at the Pentagon on Friday, attending the unveiling of his official portrait.  He gave this short speech: Some might as...

From Day-by-Day.  Read the whole thing !

Via reader Simi L. (himself a Californian): 1. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot. 2. Turn your cap right, your head ain't cr...

This is the trailer of a mock movie, created to promote the JavaZone conference in Europe.  It's in (I think) Norwegian, but with Englis...

See this collection of links for all the disgusting details .  The Center for Competitive Politics has a summary analysis (and will send...

Voyager 2 was launched 33 years ago, and it's been collecting science data that whole time.  Last month it started sending back bogus da...

But only after waiting for 5 hours for my delayed flight from Phoenix to San Diego – I didn't get home until almost 11 pm.  That made fo...

As it happens, I'm headed to Phoenix this morning – and as I write this post, I'm sitting in Terminal 1 at San Diego's Lindbergh...

Via my mom: Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained, "It's the druggist. ...

What's wrong with this picture ?  In the past forty years, K12 spending per child has risen almost four times, while measures of achieve...