Via my mom: Dear God: Let me give you a list of just some of the things I must remember to be a good Dog. 1. I will not eat the cats...

These twins have their own language!  Cute and funny.  Via Frankie T.:

Via about half the readers of this blog:

Via reader Dr. Simi L.: Man who wants pretty nurse, must be patient. Lady who goes camping must beware of evil intent. Man who leaps of...

I owned one of these back in the early '80s, along with the (not pictured) optional Fresnel lens magnifier for the tiny little CRT.  I ...

Almost everything I've read of history (that's hundreds of books; history is a passion of mine) is secondhand material.  Historians ...

Mark Steyn, reacting to Lindsay Graham's blaming of the Koran-burning pastor for the deaths in Afghanistan: A mob of deranged ululating...

It's in Japanese, but really, no words are required...

MESSENGER's main science mission has begun .  All systems are now fully up and running, and all systems are operating flawlessly.  Six a...

Via my mom: The Psychiatrist & The Proctologist Best friends graduated from medical school at the same time and decided that, in spit...

From Botany Photo of the Day , of course!

For some reason this official aircraft silhouette identification chart has upset the UFO believers.  Can't imagine why!

Saturday I wrote about the dog rescued off the coast of Japan , quite possibly the last survivor of the earthquake and tsunami of three week...

I'd pay good money for the opportunity to do this.  I think just once, though...

This image was captured by a girl's high school astronomy club in Sydney, Australia.  Via APOD , of course.

Three weeks on flotsam, with no food or water – then rescued by men who had given up all hope of finding any survivors. That's one hap...

From Google , via reader Simon M.  Looks ... tiring ! Watch the video, and don't forget to click on the "Try Gmail Motion" b...

Via my mom: Wow!

...on Professor Muller , whom I wrote about a few days ago.

This site is interesting on several levels: as a demonstration of accessible data mining, as a tool for quantative history study, and as a ...