We called Animal ER this morning to check on how Mo'i was doing, and we got some good news: Mo'i was ready to come home!  I jumped...

I think I've posted this before, but I couldn't find it so...here it goes again (maybe).  Via my cousin Mike D.: The train was qui...

Via my mom: A union boss walks into a bar next door to the factory and is about to order a drink to celebrate Obama’s victory when he sees...

This is just disgusting, and un-American .  The nanny state is alive and well...

The Wall Street Journal agrees with me: the crackdown on Intrade is gross regulatory overreach .

Mo'i is our second-oldest dog – a male field spaniel who has been part of our lives for fourteen years.  He's a quiet, affectionate,...

I normally listen to music when I'm programming.  The type of music varies with my mood and the difficulty of the work I'm doing; an...

Not my photo, and not a local species: this is from Columbia, Lupinus bogotensis , photo courtesy of Botany Photo of the Day ...

... this is what you get .  Hint: when the guy stops running, wave your cursor around over his head. Via my mom...

I've no doubt that this is just an early salvo in the Obama administration's re-energized wealth redistribution campaign : H.R. 41...

Anamorphic illusions are drawings or photographs that look very realistic when viewed from a particular vantage point.  You may be familiar ...

Here's a startup offering a free DNS hosting and management service (made by Geeks!).  Until they figure out how to make money at this,...

It's not a surprise that more babies are born on some particular dates (month and day) than on others.  The distribution of those more ...

Jan Faarlund, a professor of linguistics at the University of Oslo, Norway, makes a very interesting claim: that Old English didn't evo...

CoyoteBlog has another interesting observation on the motivations of politicians (and, by inference, one of the fundamental reasons why dem...

An interesting analysis for anyone considering leaving the worst-run state: California.  The results are available in tabular form and in ...

Christian Hansen continues his excellent series on Babbage's Analytical Engine .

An Italian newspaper is reporting this .  I don't know the paper and so I have no idea whether it's more like the National Enquirer ...

This video captures quite nicely the feelings that I and many other and many other Vietnam-era veterans have upon witnessing the respect so ...

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