Via my mom (seriously): She was standing in the kitchen, preparing our usual soft-boiled eggs and toast for breakfast, wearing only the ...

  Saw this again on another site, and just had to post it. It's a beautiful graphic expostion of the idea that in software engineering...

An amazing and inspiring story of a totally blind man who has taught himself to “see” remarkably well – the same way bats do, with echoloca...

Peggy Noonan, in today's WSJ : Unions have been respected in America forever, and public employee unions have reaped that respect. Ther...

...of death for a soldier in any particular war?  Here's the answer, courtesy of Essential Militaria , via Gizmodo : • War of Independe...

This is over two years old, but new to me.  Amazing!

The Koch brothers have been the subject of intense demonization by the liberals and progressives, especially concerning recent events in Wis...

I don't know much about the factions in Libya, but it's hard to imagine a group I'd not prefer to Mohamar Gahdaffi.  So I was ha...

If you're at all interested in computers, this graphic is fascinating. If you've been involved with computers as long as I have, ...

Via reader Dave H:, who says this strikes a little close to home...

Cuyamaca Peak, from Lawson Valley... Yesterday morning, Debbie and I (along with Miki and Race) took off for our local mountains, which ...

Late last night we got something like an inch (2.5 cm) of snow.  Wet, slushy, with hail mixed in – but recognizably snow.  You can see on th...