Reader Doug S. passed along this gem: a simple recording of Don Verrilli, Jr. defending ObamaCare during the Supreme Court's oral argume...

The Go programming language has officially released its version 1 ...

A beautiful animated map rendering of winds in the U.S.   I had to try a few times to successfully load the site; I suspect their servers ar...

The amazing story of Sealand, a WWII relic in the North Sea that claims to be the world's smallest nation .  There's a tie-in with “...

Cassandra at Villainous Company has an interesting post up on moral reasoning .  She quotes a few scenarios postulated by Steven Landsburg ...

Debbie and Miki ran in an agility competition this past weekend.  It was a three-day meet, and they ran twice each day.  On one of those six...

Parts of this I found quite funny (and I think it's intended to be a joke).  Other parts resonated to various degrees, in some cases q...

Found this graphic showing the religions of the world's population.  As always, click to enlarge.  More info at the source .  There were...

I haven't been commenting about the Trayvon Martin (the black youth shot and killed by George Zimmerman) case mainly because I don't...

The news from the Supreme Court's oral arguments on Obamacare sure sound hopeful ...

Passwords are really hard to get right .  To be useful, they have to be memorable (so you can remember them without writing them down) and t...

Out with the dogs a little later than usual this morning.  In the eastern sky, the Milky Way shone bright and clear, stretching from the nor...

Enigma machines , that is: WWII-era German cryptographic machines .  I had no idea that so many had survived the war...

The state of Queensland, Australia is afflicted with a liberal-dominated government comparable to California's, with predictable consequ...

Rick Santorum had a bit of a dustup with New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny the other day.  It went like this: Zeleny: "You said Mi...

Rachel Lucas , one of my favorite bloggers, is back on the air after a months-long hiatus.  Her rude and irreverant humor is back on display...

The New York Times has a fascinating map of the U.S. (view of a small section at right), showing county-by-county the percentage of peop...

The robotic MESSENGER mission to the planet Mercury has vastly extended our knowledge of that little orb.  One of the oddest things MESSEN...

I'd never heard of Emmy Noether before I read this article , and I've read a lot of science history...

I just had to sneak a LOTR reference in there!  But seriously, this looks very promising ...