Ordinarily metastability is something digital hardware designers go out of their way to avoid.  Intel has come up with a way to harness m...

Tony Blankley has some lovely ideas about what President Obama could say in his upcoming jobs speech: He could decide to embrace all the m...

Courtesy of your government, of course.  The latest : a trucking company can't refuse to hire a driver with a history of alcohol abuse –...

Six minutes of pure fun for anyone who enjoys Tetris or is a history buff:

Via Frankie T., a colleague whose sister (Nora W.) lives in Northboro, Massachussets (about 25 miles west of Boston).  Her area was hard hit...

Much of the software engineering world mercilessly mocks Microsoft for their many violations of all that is good and right.  Here's yet ...

The sky was beautifully clear and moonless.  The dogs did their usual things; the brown dogs smelling everything, the border collie consumed...

Jamul is in a hot zone.  Not for temperatures, but for real estate prices : A standout was Jamul, where the median price for a single-fami...

This guy is just crazy:

Austin Bay summarizes the Libyan War of 2011:

Some interesting thoughts on software patents (and some other things)...

Otherwise known as an airport security fail ...

Via my mom: The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals. We are all fam...

Via reader Jim M.: If you can answer this correctly, you can answer the question on what action to take on raising the Federal debt ceili...

...and my hero of the moment!

Can you spot the bug in this code fragment? if (code == 200) {     // Downloading whole file      /* Write new file (plus allow readi...

Not bad enough to get worried about – yet – but something to keep an eye on ...

Apparently they want to build a tunnel across the Bering Straits , something like 64 miles long.  It would carry trains, electricity, and co...

My folks live about 7 miles from the epicenter of yesterday's earthquake in Virginia.  They're fine, and their house is fine.  But...