Geek: an open-source text on operating systems...   I've only read a few pieces of this , but what I have read looks pretty good ... an...

Geek: Internet of things is getting easier all the time...   There's nothing particularly revolutionary about this product (called Spa...

Martian mystery...   Well, intriguing at the very least .  The two photos at right show the same spot on Mars, just in front of the Opport...

Miki...   It seems like such a short time ago, but actually it's been almost eight years that we first brought Miki home (that's h...

Notes on life with 4 dogs and 10 cats...   Upon sighting a darker area on the floor when walking through the darkened house, do not step on...

Six thought experiments...   Each in a one minute video; first one is at right.  The whole collection is a good introduction to the fasci...

Say, that's a little harsh, isn't it?   Some physicists recently published a paper in a relatively new journal.  The paper expressed...

Fishermen are crazy...   That's an observation I think most sentient beings would agree with.  However, this pair of fishermen have t...

Demand curves...   I share Warren Meyer's perplexity over the progressive's support for minimum wages.  I would think they'd be...

Prepare to be angry ... at the Democrats' top priority in the recent budget negotiations.  Kimberley Strassel as the scoop ...

Public servant selfishness...   Peggy Noonan makes some interesting points ...

It's starting...   The number of electrical engineers in the U.S. declined last year, by 35,000 positions.  The growth of software engi...

Geek: a bit of wisdom from The Master (whoever that is)... The programmer and the stone statue. A programmer was troubled and sad, so he...

My mom could use this...   Reading blood sugar levels in real time, from tears .  I'm not sure that she'd go along with a contact ...

Schneier briefs congresscritters...   Six of them , all advocates of reining in the NSA (and the rest of our “intelligence” apparatus).  I h...

Ship of fools...   Steve McIntyre is back, not with a post about climatology per se , but rather on the adventure tourism ship that recently...

More toxic fallout from the war on drugs...   This is one that not too many U.S. citizens are aware of: almost nobody charged with a crime g...

Government logic...   Megan McArdle notes some government information that is internally inconsistent.  Some time ago, Washington D.C. imple...

Moving the goalposts...   Peter Suderman, writing at Reason , on the administration's transparent attempts to declare success by repeate...

Old temperature data ignored...   The warmists have been diligent about hiding exactly what they've done to “adjust” the temperature dat...