Via Simon M., this fascinating look at a giant ant colony' structure:

A DAC for reproducing digital music , designed to plug into a PC's USB port, with specs and listener reviews that match the very best pr...

I've been ignoring the currently hot meme about Obama having eaten dog meat when he was a child.  It's just silly to hold him culpab...

From National Geographic, the photo of the month (click to enlarge).  I'd love to see this in person... Once again I am gobsmacked b...

OpenFlow just got an absolutely enormous (and convincing) endorsement ...

From Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle: I don't know. So sayeth “the Larry”, in response to this question : “Is the Java programming langau...

A fantastic collection of astrophotos of our sun , by Alan Friedman.  Much, much more at his blog, Averted Imagination .

A very surprised kid: Some great photos here ...

Warren Meyer at CoyoteBlog weighs in on one of my pet frustrations : In a reasonably sane world, and in all other contexts outside of hea...

Reading this brought back lots of memories, of the Stac v. Microsoft case in the early '90s, in which I was a participant...

The SpaceX Dragon space craft has been cleared for launch , tentatively scheduled for April 30th.  This is a private space venture (which I ...

I've posted before about the way in which doing math by slide rule forces one to estimate the answer before “reading” it from the slide ...

Solar Explosion Yesterday there was a huge explosion on the sun, visible from Earth along the rim of the solar disk.  The image at right...

In yesterday's Union-Tribune, there was an article talking about the pros and cons of situating casinos in San Diego's backcountry. ...

Erik Johansson is a photographer and retouch artist working out of Berlin, Germany.  He's made a name for himself through his remarkab...

In the ongoing debates about anthropogenic global warming, one of the recurring issues is that the scientists who analyzed the proxy tempera...

Plain old water ice is far more complex than you might think .  Click the figure at right for a phase diagram (of pressure vs. temperature...

And this is just plain amazing !