Rachel Lucas' new dog Primo comments on politics: Rachel calls this “mellow” – I say “cogent commentary” :)

This article about breaking up with an old car instantly resonated with Debbie and I.  We recently traded in our old '96 LandCruiser – ...

The green line shows what we're spending, per capita , on the war on drugs.  The blue line shows the drug use, per capita , over the sam...

Curiosity has finished analyzing the rock powder its drill produced a few weeks ago.  The results show that ancient Mars had all the right a...

Applications running at any significant scale typically execute on clusters of servers.  These clusters are composed, generally, from multip...

Much more recently than I would have guessed !

Molten-salt fission reactor technology sounds compelling to me , the more so every new time I read about it .  In a rational world (that wou...

Lakes Entertainment has posted its 2012 Q4 and Y results , which prominently features the wind-up of it's agreement with the Jamul India...

This brilliant clip lampoons Congress and Obama for ratcheting up the national debt – and it does so in a way that absolutely anyone can com...

Drums like you've never seen them before, trust me:

From Mark Steyn, during his substitute stint on the Rush Limbaugh show yesterday .  I didn't hear this, but I wish I had: You’re doome...

Yesterday at 9:56:06 Pacific time there was a magnitude 4.7 earthquake near Anza, California .  There were also a number of smaller quakes b...

Sam Harris has an excellent piece about how it feels when a cherished belief collides with reality as understood by science .  In particular...

Many people are attracted to either all-electric or hybrid cars because they believe they are helping the environment by doing so – they are...

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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