Via my lovely bride:

Toyota advertisement from down under...

Mt. Sharp rises from the floor of Gale Crater on Mars, which is where Curiosity is busy exploring.  NASA just released a panorama of Mt. Sha...

Well, it's about time !

...and in entertaining fashion, despite the ominous beginning...

... and he's tearing into the ClimateGate 3.0 stuff .  It's great to see him back “on the job!”

It's setting new records for the high amounts of ice, again (click image to enlarge)...

Fascinating talk about the fact that the Earth is getting greener (more vegetation), and why...

Just watch it already...

The Trojan named “Gauss” has a mysterious encrypted warhead whose purpose has not yet been deciphered.  But security folks think it's li...

With ordinary cubic (six-sided) dice, each side has a different number of dots on it, from 1 to 6.  If you roll two ordinary dice in competi...

Some historians credit Bush's Memex as the original idea that spawned the Internet's World Wide Web, and other computerized knowled...

Estonia has several interesting sports that either originated there, or were popularized there.  Kiiking, for example (watch video below).  ...

Update: Fixed (at least with initial tests).  Apple has released an update that appears to fix the problem.  It was a firmware issue in th...

Mr. FOIA (pseudonym of the person who released the original Climategate data dump) has dropped the other shoe – he (or she?) has released th...

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you've heard me railing about the poor quality of our public education system.  If this top...

Ah, Rachel.  She's not happy about Bloomberg's nanny-state silliness.  Here's the beginning of her (patent pending) rant: ...T...

Scientists have uncovered a 600 year old Chinese coin on an island off the coast of Kenya , in eastern Africa.  Many folks have speculated...

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