Oh, it's going to be an interesting election season!

...in St. Petersburg, Russia.  About 10 years ago, I stayed here on two separate business trips, visiting a software development subsidiar...

Anyone who has worked with executives of the MBA variety has almost certainly run into at least a few of the cliche-spouting ignoramus varie...

We had a bit of an unusual occurrence here today: SDG&E needed to replace a utility pole, and they did it with a helicopter.  The pole i...

This time from the lamestream leader (the New York Times), nicely caught and laid out by Mollie Hemingway ...

A strange twist on a subject I've blogged about before: the problem of hard radiation exposure on any manned space mission beyond the n...

Astronomers at the InfraRed Telescope Facility in Hawai'i captured this video of a small asteroid that passed quite close to the Earth ...

...where the word “hello” came from ?

The interesting, hardball campaign commercials have already started, long before the election...

Via my mom: The Democratic Party today announced that it is changing its symbol from the donkey to a condom because it more accurately r...

Years ago, my friend Jim B. and I climbed up the side of an active vent (Pu'u O'o) of the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawai...

I took the dogs out for their morning walk about about 3:30 am.  The sky was very dark and clear, and moonless.  Even before my eyes accommo...

National Geographic's Photo of the Month:

...that's me, after viewing this:

Unusually well done:

...from this weekend's competition, here and here (sorry, not embeddable).

...quite literally.  The art below is made with nails ...