I'd sure like to have witnessed this:

It's cold here today; the kind of day we used to call “raw”.  The temperature has been around 43°F (5°C) all day, the humidity has been ...

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Usually we spend Thanksgiving Day with friends and family, at home (whether ours or someone else's).  This year we did something complet...

25 geekly SSH beauties ...

As always, click to enlarge. From APOD , of course.

Yup, that pretty much says it...

The Obama administration recently gave the Nissan Leaf plug-in electric vehicle a mileage rating of 99 MPG.  That makes it look very good co...

Why creating public sector jobs is useless for growing the economy:

IowaHawk has the inside scoop.  Put down your morning beverage first, swallow your last gulp, then read ...

Buck Howdy is thinking about you: Meanwhile, we're thankful to be staying home all four days of this holiday (except for an excursi...

For the past 100 years or so, U.S. politics have been essentially a contest between two political parties: Republicans and Democrats.  While...

The term “settled science” appears in the IPCC reports and has become a key catch-phrase in the AGW debates.  The basic notion put forth by ...

... the more impressed I am .

Flying snakes .

Most of my readers know that I work in the software industry .  This industry has the rare good fortune to suffer only the occasional bout o...

Up at 3 am as usual, and out with the dogs for our morning walk at 3:20 am.  When I opened our front door, I was surprised to hear a light p...

Just over 62 years ago, on November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed Kristallnacht on their Jewish citizens.  This is a short video piece, with...

Bill Cosby has some fun with a Southern accent and some confusing geography.  YouTube has dozens of such video clips of Bill Cosby , and eve...

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