Last night I pondered my frustrations with our government, and I realized that quite a few of them all boiled down to one thing: fiscal irre...

A great article at ExtremeTech explaining all the high-tech stuff that allowed Felix Baumgartner to make his jump yesterday ...

Boomer is a six-month old border collie, with the same parents as Race. He's not ours; he belongs to an Australian couple who has left ...

We don't know Tippy's exact age, as he was a rescue (from our old neighborhood in Chula Vista) – but we figure he's roughly 16...

Say “Hello!” to Race, the bug-eyed border collie who runs like the wind... How do you like that nose?  If you touch it, it's all wet a...

Little Maka Lea is probably our sweetest little kitty, despite (or maybe because of) his neurological damage. Just walking across the carpe...

This is our little Savannah cat, only he's not so little any more.  At just over a year old, he's about the same size and weight as ...

And they're not afraid to let you know that:

He's certainly set one record (highest balloon ascent), and probably set another (going supersonic while in freefall).  He landed safe a...

Red Bull Stratos is the name of the mission, a commercially-funded mission to the edge of space (to quote their PR materials).  As I writ...

Christian Hansen, writing at Hummus and Magnets , has a couple of posts on Charles Babbage's Difference Engine.  Both are excellent, and...

So says a report quietly issued by the U.K.'s “Met” – the same agency that initially raised the anthropogenic global warming scare almo...

At right is this morning's Iowa Electronic Markets graph.  Romney's position continues to improve, but Obama is still favored, 1.5...

...on his way up to a record altitude (in a balloon), and from which he's planning to more records – especially for altitude, and for th...

Via reader Simi L.: Why Pilots Prefer Airplanes Over Women Airplanes usually kill you quickly; a woman takes her time. Airplanes can be...

Here's a close-up photo of the little piece of plastic that fell off the Rover.  The folks at JPL have concluded that it's likely ...

I've just finished reading The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling (the author of the Harry Potter series).  I enjoyed it, well enough that...