My mom sent me several photos like the one at right, of an albino hummingbird seen near Staunton, Virginia, which is only about 50 miles f...

Reader Dave H. gave that label to this poster:

Down to a mere 12 atoms .  That does actually seem like we're approach a limit of sorts – it's hard to imagine that we can figure o...

That's my reaction to the news that Haley Barbour pardoned 208 people , many of them the worst kinds of criminals.  I know enough about ...

Tiny, powerful, but with low power requirements, we're starting to see some amazing hobbyist hardware appear.  These little computers a...

Via my mom: In the coming New Year, 2012, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address will occur on the same day. This is an ir...

Oh, this will make you feel all warm and fuzzy about the billions of dollars spent on the TSA, and (if you're a traveller) the inconven...

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...