A journalist tests the TSA with some professional help.  Conclusion: the TSA is very good at spending enormous sums of money and at irritat...

Interesting list of developer-oriented tools for Macs ...

Take a short length of ordinary copper pipe, and a small stack of powerful neodymium magnets .  Drop the magnets through the pipe, and watch...

The Department of Justice is going after three blogs : the three blogs that first published the release of the ClimateGate2 emails. Our Fo...

Reader and colleague Doug S. passes along this flash mob, from Lawrence, Kansas:

Master Sgt. Allen, currently on duty in Afghanistan, sings to his family back home: I can't find the words to express my pride and ...

Via my mom:

Oldie-but-goodie, sung by a 10 year old girl:

Most of the time, we software engineers can safely think of our code as not life-threatening.  But the proliferation of computers into devi...

AKA the Sculptor Galaxy, one of the brightest and most beautiful spiral galaxies visible from Earth.  Via APOD , of course...

High coercivity magnets without rare earth elements .  If this discovery turns out to be scalable to industrial volumes, it will remove a h...

Via Amy L.; more details here :

Passed along by reader Simi L:

Mainiacs are those who hail from the state of Maine.  They have a strange sense of humor: Via my mom...

Apparently of a heart attack at age 69 .  His twenty-something son, Kim Jong-Un, is his annointed successor. Kim Jong-Il's death means...

Life released a batch of photos never before published – of the Battle of the Bulge, 67 years ago. Some of these, like the one at right...