Ptilotus spathulatus, aka “cat's paw” or ”pussytails”.  I saw this while in Australia, back in the '70s.  They feel just like they l...

This past weekend Debbie ran both Miki and Race in an agility competition.  This was Race's very first such competition.  In the video b...

Look closely at this time-lapse movie and you'll see a line of “stars” that don't move as the real stars rotate.  Those are geostati...

Andy Firth talks about a topic I've posted on several times: It depresses me that so much of what I consider to be essential is simp...

A replacement for SSH?  Better than SSH?  I haven't tried Mosh yet, but I have to say that it looks interesting.  I wonder about it...

Eevee at Fuzzy Notepad really, really doesn't like PHP – and he details the reasons why is great detail.  I was already convinced of PH...

As I was reading this excellent post (at Sultan Knish by David Greenfield) musing on the patterns in human history, one paragraph caught m...

Via my lovely bride:

The graph at right (click to enlarge) shows computations/kilowatt-hour on the vertical axis (logarithmic), and time on the horizontal.  Wh...

This is the best video of granular flows I've ever seen:

A bald eagle does what it takes to get his dinner. Via my mom:

Via my mom: Anger Management When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it ...

Today from Peggy Noonan, the close of her column this week: One misses that special grace.  Yes, one does.  Read the whole thing ...

Holy silicon wafers, Batman!  A collaboration between UCSD and TowerJazz has produced a working phased-array radar on a single silicon chip ...

From Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert: When robots become awesome and economical, no one will want to spend time with a smelly, inconvenie...

Oops.  There goes one pillar of The Gore's preaching...

Reader Larry E. weighs in (I quote his email to me in its entirety): If the congress had created a nationalized healthcare system paid for...

Via my mom:

The graph at right shows the ratio of civilian employment to total population, over time.  You can see that in the current recession this ...

Here's something I completely missed when it went operational in 2007, and somehow I've never run into it since: an advanced radio...