The side-mounted rear-view mirrors on our new FJ Cruiser are roughly rectangular in shape, mounted with the long side vertical (usually t...

Via friend and reader Doug W. , who points out, tongue-in-cheek, that “Of course, this kind of issue has no relation whatsoever to the clima...

It jumped 263 feet ! But this isn't your momma's grasshopper:

Nearly every time I read some of Benjamin Franklin's writings I am surprised by his wit and humor.  I need to read more :) Here's ...

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This morning I read that Afghan President Karzai just accused the U.S. of colluding with Taliban ($WSJ) to persuade the Afghan public that ...

Consider the following formulae: π 2 ≈ 9.87 g ≈ 9.81 N/k The constant g is the gravitational constant, for the force of gravity at the...

Whenever a politician tells you that our economy is recovering, remember this graph.  We won't have a real recovery until the employment...

Space junk, that is – not a ship .  This prognosis pretty much sums it up: It is not immediately clear whether the satellite is merely wou...

An entertaining demonstration of hydrophobic materials:

Via Watts Up With That , this awesome TED talk by Dr. Allan Savory.  He shows how people on five continents have reversed desertification by...

From Mark Steyn's current piece on the drone debate : The guys with drones are losing to the guys with fertilizer — because they mean ...

...but I thought this was very funny :)

The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court, justifiably notorious for its progressive-leaning rulings, must have missed its meds: they've just rule...

Well, a candidate , maybe.  Awesome?  You betcha.  It involves Forth, TTL, microcode, and an oven.  What could possibly go wrong?  :)

When I first read the title of this article , I thought it was referring to a different (though related) problem: computing the course of a ...

A presentation on some quirks of the C programming language .  Very nicely done...