Not long ago, California Senator Dianne Feinstein said (in the context of pushing her gun control bill, which failed) “All vets are mentally...

This beast, dubbed “SkyWhale”, is about to take flight.  Tim Blair says : “The perfect symbol of our capital city – a bloated, gaseous, mult...

Said by my mom, upon reading that 78,000 people have volunteered for a one-way mission to Mars: It's my fervent hope that all 78,000 t...

Yesterday morning I finished putting on the last of the skid plates (the four lower link skids).  The FJ's “armor” is complete!  And tha...

Via Rachel Lucas , this is a slightly different version of a video I've posted before.  But what the hell, it's still wonderful :) ...

They note with some regret the 200 mile limitation, but otherwise they make the Tesla Model S sound like basically the perfect car:

Here's a nice collection of very terse math primers on a bunch of different math topics that are frequently used in programming...

Several readers have emailed to ask me why I'm not commenting on this story.  Mainly it's because there's nothing for me to add....

Let's say that you're a big government organization.  Let's say that you have an application where your computers really, really...

Megan McArdle does what she does best: a merciless beating applied to a government agency.  A sample: Central States is in particularly ba...

I don't need any reinforcement of the disdain I have for our president, Barack Hussein Obama.  But just in case you do, go read this ....

Stealth aircraft and ships are a response to radar and sonar; they make the targets hard to find.  Electronic counter-warfare (ECW) kicks it...

Harrison Schmitt (of Apollo fame) and William Happer have an interesting article in today's WSJ.  The lead: Of all of the world's ...

I've noticed this phenomenon myself: there aren't enough 50+ year old programmers.  What do I mean by “not enough”?  Take me as an e...

The p -values of statistical analysis get people in trouble all the time.  Here's a great explanation of how they do it ...

Common name wiry bushpea , native to Australia and Tasmania.  Via BPOD, of course:

Watch: I can't find the origin of this, but what it appears to be is a video of someone firing his gun at police, then being taken ...

Late yesterday afternoon, Federal Express delivered a heavy box to us, containing the Boztec rear differential skid I'd ordered.  This...

Bureaucracy run amok , coming here soon, I'm sure: A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow,...

Via my lovely bride, this parable of age vs. youth: One day an old German Shepherd starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that ...