From Chile, this flower is also known as Garra de león , or “lion's claw”.  I'll call it gorgeous .  From BPoD, of course...

Geek/Math warning.  Now that's pretty cool!

Sixteen prominent scientists have signed a letter made public yesterday.  First paragraph: A candidate for public office in any contempor...

Reader Simon M. is on a roll – excellent!

Via reader Simon M (click to enlarge): Nice!

In topology, to be precise.  Via my mom:

... on Cajuns (that's people from Louisiana): Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large num...

Reader Simon M. sent me a collection of photos featuring a three-carrier task group and some photos of the F/A-37 Talon (one of them at ri...

We had a team lunch yesterday, at the local Red Robin on Del Mar Heights Road.  Behold the ServiceNow Automation development team (missing...

Don't click here unless you have a geekly interest in IEEE float internals...

Via my mom: She actually sent me a whole collection of famous dog-related quotes overlayed on cute dog photos.  I'll post a few more...

For any geek working in a company run by non-geeks (decidedly not the case at my employer, ServiceNow – but true of some of my former empl...

My lovely bride passed along this little pearl of Cowboy Wisdom&tm;: The guys were all at a deer camp.  No one wanted to room with Bo...

Suppose you're a violinist.  You're playing at a somber, serious classical music concert.  Suddenly someone's Nokia (recognizabl...

Here's an interesting idea – shareable clipboard-like functionality hosted in the cloud.  It's basically a fast way to share (live)...

A nice little compilation and discussion of mostly common-sense practices – but if you're new to JavaScript, this is quite handy!

Doug S. passes along this amateur video clip of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.  The guard is not happy with the laughter and ...

This moved me to tears this morning... The spirit that shows through here is awe-inspiring. Though I don't agree with many of the p...

John Scalzi is a well-known science fiction author, and old enough to remember vinyl LP records.  His daughter, however, is just 13 years ol...

...had a great weekend, in agility competition at NTC.  They ran four times, qualified on each run (so two double-Qs!), and got a total of ...