This panorama was made from dozens of individual photos taken while Curiosity was parked at Rocknest.  It's been white-balanced so that ...

Intrade is one of the two main online prediction markets in the U.S., used for many purposes but probably best-known for their election pred...

Via my lovely niece Amber G., who attended our recent family reunion – and then saw this graphic, which resonated with her for some reason: ...

Fiona Apple is a singer, one I'd never heard of before.  She recently canceled a tour, explaining herself to her fans with this letter: ...

Curiosity is busy driving to its next research site.  The raw image feed seems to show mainly photos designed to help the navigation team fi...

This photo was taken in April 2008 by the Mars Reconnaisance Observer (MRO) satellite.  It appears to show dark trees against the pink sand,...

Take one female engineer, one who happens to be dissatisfied with her latest vibrator (of the “sex toy” variety).  Add a bent for hacking, o...

Christian Hansen has posted the next installment of his excellent series on Babbage's calculating machines .  If you're a geek, it...

Hearing someone of the wisdom and intellectual clarity of Dr. Sowell declaring that all is lost is most definitely...not comforting...

Via friend and neighbor Dick F.: Look what happens when we cut down too many trees. Global warming is one thing, but see below and look at...

Via my mom... Some of my colleagues are young enough that they wouldn't recognize the manual typewriter being used.  There's a pos...

The U.S. Post Office (USPS) loses billions of dollars each year, and each year Congress agrees to allow taxpayers to cover that shortfall.  ...

Adam Whitcroft has open-sourced a collection of beautiful minimalist icons, scalable and suitable for web design .  There's an interesti...

If so, the folks in the British intelligence agency GCHQ would like to hear from you – because so far, this recently found WWII pigeon-ca...

This is kind of scary – some scientists think that a billion ton comet may have missed hitting the earth by just a few hundred kilometers, ...

From Pieter Hintgens' blog : Two old engineers were talking of their lives and boasting of their greatest projects. One of the engine...

From blogger Rachel Lucas, talking about her newly acquired dog Primo : ...a furry, cuddly little ball of Prozac... And she's very th...

Curiosity is doing some driving right now.  Here are two different 3D views of the terrain in front of it yesterday.  The top view is a blue...

...that you don't see every day: an island was “undiscovered” !