An old missile silo in the Adirondack mountains , remodeled as a home with extra bedrooms and living space.  For sale, a mere $750k...

It's so nice to be back home after a business trip... This morning the four dogs and I went for our morning walk at 3 am.  The perfect...

Well, not quite.  But genetically engineered silk worms are now producing silk with the (vastly superior) strength of spider's silk.  Th...

...just took a big spike up .  As always, I'm not sure what that really means (other than that Google is seeing more searches related to...

My mom sent this to me, saying that I'd laugh at it.  I did! On the first day, God created the dog and said, "Sit all day by the...

I sure miss this guy...  Passed along by Dave H.:

A new religious movement has been formally recognized by the government of Sweden.  It's just a bit different than most religions you...

...but which I most certainly don't have.  Just watch:

This is from last weekend, where Miki qualified on 5 out of 6 runs, and took one second place (shown below) and one third place.  Debbie was...

But not a particularly happy one.  Doug S. points out this post showing that just before the end of the year, the U.S. debt “officially” exc...

Well, sort of. Warren Y. sends along this demonstration of autonomous (i.e., no human controlling them) helicopters (really, quadracopters ...

Somehow our cats seem to know today is “special”.  Our youngest (the Savannah cat Jahar) is playing, hard, with one of our oldest cats (Tipp...

I own one of the tea strainers shown at right .  It's the best one I've ever owned.  I love the silly thing. But until this morn...

Over at Scribd they've got a terrific collection of totally depressing charts – 11 trends over the last 11 years . The one that sur...

Via my mom.  Put down your morning beverage first:

Via reader Jim M., this handy list you can use when talking politics with your lefty friends: Top 12 Reasons To Vote Democratic I'm ...

From the Abstruse Goose , this interesting infographic showing just how little we actually can perceive of the total electromagnetic spectru...

Note the little Ds (for Democrats) and Rs (for Republicans).  See a trend?  As always, click to enlarge...

Read about the exploits of Nevil Maskelyne – it sounds much like something that might happen today on the Intertubes...