Toshiba is showing a new large-format 3D television receiver that doesn't require viewers to wear any special glasses .  The technology ...

The Mars rover Opportunity is already hard at work in the Endeavour Crater , which it only recently reached after years of travel.  It...

I love this Cassini photo.  I'll spare y'all my rant about robotic explorers vs. manned space flight.  Just enjoy this! Via APOD...

For the compression geeks .  Amusing, more than anything...

And Maureen Dowd is talking trash on Obama ...

The folks at Google have come up with another clever toy .  This one lets  you draw an arbitrary distribution curve (over time), then finds ...

Via my colleague Aleck L.  This cartoon very nicely illustrates the general mindset of the three major operating systems' users. In ...

Here's a compilation of OBlunders, most of them things I'm sure you've seen before.  The point of this is to demonstrate the rem...

My sister lives in central Virginia.  Recently she spotted this bizarre-looking hairy mushroom in her yard.  Any idea what the heck it is...

Via my mom: My Last Trip to COSTCO: Yesterday I was at my local COSTCO buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Jake, the...

This is what Rush Limbaugh is talking about when he rails about “environmentalist wackos”. There certainly are many people who are both...

Here's a new open source map editing program .  I haven't used it myself (yet!), but it sure looks interesting...

I've long been a fan of state machines implemented in software.  Most of my colleagues roll their eyes when I display my enthusiasm for...

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 ...