Cute babies...   More here ...

The far side of the moon...   Via APOD and a marvelous piece of robotic space exploration technology called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbi...

Learning...   I'm living now in a two story home with a finished basement, so effectively three stories.  For about the last 35 years, I...

It won't be long now ... before someone completely owns the network on their Tesla Model S !

Legislation as political advertising...   Warren Meyer at CoyoteBlog with a great example.  He links to this list of required workplace pos...

Ancient windmills of Kinderdijk...   Beautiful photograph by David Knopfler ...

Meteorite just misses skydiver ... and it's all captured on video, including the meteorite flying by him.  Just amazing!

Don't fear the IPCC bogeyman...  James Delingpole explains why you should be climate-fear-free ...

A different kind of prank...   Just watch...

Luscious forest overhead scene...   From British Columbia, via BPOD ...

New house update...   We took possession of our new home today, after doing a final walk-through.  I also got a bit of an education from the...

NGC 2174...   A beautiful nebula in the Orion constellation.  Via APOD , of course ( full resolution )...

The wisdom of crowds...  Interesting piece on a fascinating topic .  In this case, a crowd of ordinary people with no special access to inf...

Tarsnap gets even cheaper!  Secure cloud backup for any UNIX-like machine, with data stored on Amazon's S3 service .  The service's...

Cloud-based circuit assembly...   I wouldn't have foreseen this would happen.  Amazing!

Bootstrapping a compiler...   This story about a modern effort assumes that the reader will think that bootstrapping a compiler is somethin...

The dissing of the president...   Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal .  Near the end he expresses a thought I've had often these p...

Quote of the day...   From Susan Vass , as seen on PowerLine Blog : Everybody gets along. Everybody eats at the same three local diners. ...

We know which political party you should join...   Apparently Covered California (the California ObamaCare insurance exchange) knows which p...

The Internet is a wonderful thing, part 693,283...   The New York Public Library has released high-resolution images of over 20,000 maps in ...