It looks likely that giant aeroships will sail the skies again , in the not too distant future...

...because they're suffering from a rash of genital theft : Reports of genital theft have spread like an epidemic across West and Cent...

I guess that headline is a bit redundant, eh?  A few days ago, Joe Biden amused many knowledgeable about guns – and infuriated many of the f...

Race is our young border collie, who is obsessed with chasing anything roughly round that you might throw.  Pine cones, tennis balls, styrof...

Awesome.

I take some pride in being weird – a weirdo.  I've long proclaimed that being normal is boring.  This morning I read a great blog post ...

Fascinating thread on StackExchange , if you're of a geekly bent...

The little country of Armenia has made the study of chess a required subject in its public schools .  There seem to be two objectives: groom...

I just completed installing a secondary battery system in our FJ Cruiser.  There are lots of reasons to have a dual battery system, but from...

If you're a student of 20th century history, you probably know all about the vital role of the “ Mulberry harbours ” in the Allied inv...

Hip hip hooray!  Curiosity has been offline for several weeks, after a software glitch (and possibly a memory failure; reports vary).  T...

Experiments in psychology and sociology are plagued by uncontrolled (and perhaps uncontrollable) variables and difficulties in replication. ...

Via APOD , of course ( full resolution here )...

On many CPU architectures, especially older ones, there are a relatively small number (sometimes only two or three!) of CPU registers.  Mode...

The Atlantic has a great article up about the massive construction project currently underway , mainly deep underground in New York City.  ...

NPR has an article posted digging into the phenomenon of skyrocketing employment disability rates in the U.S.   There are lots of interestin...

An excellent satire on how the left thinks about guns...

And some of them even look useful!  I recommend muting to avoid the awful background tracks.  Via reader Simi L...

The “battery problem” refers to the currently poor methods we have available to store electrical energy.  In particular, either by weight or...

I happened across this in my morning reading , entirely by accident.  On January 15th, 1919, an enormous molasses storage tank burst, spewin...