But we're all different.  This is my brother Scott:

I'm “doing” my taxes today.  In other words, I'm spending my own time (valuable at least to me) computing how much money our feder...

Here's a nice collection of little OS/X hacks .  One example, from many: have you ever wanted to change your keyboard's repeat rate?...

I don't know when this happened, but Google's search bar graphs now.  Who knows what else it does?  To see an example, click on the...

Looking at things from a dog's perspective...  If your dog could talk, some things he might say. Via my mom: Blaming your farts on m...

The Economist has been hosting a debate on airport security for the past 10 days.  The motion: This house believes that changes made to ...

The always-interesting Martin Peretz on President Obama's recent “open mic” moment with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev: Additional ...

Peggy Noonan's column is up in today's WSJ.  She's reflecting on the disappointment he's been to his own supporters.  An exc...

I found this satirical take on Obama's performance on, of all places, the Huffington Post .  Four years ago, you could depend on the Huf...

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 ...