Via my mom: A little silver-haired lady calls her neighbor and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle...

Again via my lovely wife, Debbie: They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it...

According to my lovely wife: A revelation with an Incredibly Big Message (IBM): Well, you might have thought that you knew how the Intern...

This is potentially of use to any JavaScript jockeys out there...

A magnitude 8.9 earthquake hit Japan last night, and aftershocks are continuing as I write this.  Current map here.   News reports are indic...

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Please keep an eye out for Ripken: Sometime yesterday, March 8th, Ripken (Bobbie Sevier's Border Terrier) escaped from his yard. If yo...

On the advice of my dentist (given a decade or two ago), I finally broke down and bought one of those industrial-strength electric toothbrus...

Here's a story that will make you feel better about humanity, though not necessarily about your fellow Americans. We live out in the ...

This is just plain cool ...

It's hard to know what's really going on with all the conflicing reports flying about.  Here's the clearest summary of the curr...

An apple a day does keep the doctor away !

Grab a box of tissues and go here . Sure makes my daily challenges seem...small.

If this news report is accurate, then the Obama administration is even lamer on foreign policy than I'd thought, and that's saying ...

Via APOD , of course.

I don't know enough about the inner workings of Congress to know whether this idea would actually be effective at cutting government spe...

Mr. Steyn is back from his hiatus, with a vengence, with all of his trademark blend of wit and barbed commentary on display.  This week he h...

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...