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Down again.  Below is the latest update of the Case-Shiller index .  It's good news if you're buying a house, bad news if you're...

The Washington Post has a couple of primers on the current budget plans before Congress and the history of the debt ceiling.  If you don...

When I think about things like this , it seems to me that we have nearly arrived at the point where a conventional desktop is unnecessary.  ...

A nice compendium ...

...that the breath you just took had some molecules of air that were part of Julius Caesar's last breath? Answer here .

When we left this morning it was overcast and raining, so I didn't bother taking my camera.  That was a bad mistake on my part, as Cuyam...

The U.S. Post Office's travails were entirely predictable – in fact, they were predicted, by a great many people including me.  The rea...

It's the end of May, and we're getting more rain – most unexpected out here in the high desert chaparral.  We've only had a few ...

With an amazing backstory .  Via reader Jim M.

Unknown source, via reader Jim M.: Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonalds and thanking Ronald McDonald for the h...

If you're a technology history junkie like me, you probably know about the Tunny machines.  They were an important part of the Bletchly ...

Well, sort of. This Soviet achievement in 1969 was completely overshadowed by the American achievement of putting astronauts on the moon. ...

If you're a developer, this is very funny stuff: how to write unmaintainable code .  A sample: Recycle Your Variables Wherever scope ...

Sign outside Clovis, New Mexico:

Here's a discussion about Forth , a programming language blast-from-the-past for me.  There was, in the late '70s, a period of time ...

This is so depressing ...