Speaking of the Post Office...   I received a very official-looking letter from the Post Office (photo at right, with my address obscured)...

Through a Google Glass, darkly...   Matt Labash on Google's wearable computer ...

Success!   SpaceX's F9R just had its first test flight - and it was completely successful.  Make it full screen... Elon Musk and his...

You're not really surprised, are you?   The Obama administration has delayed a decision on the Keystone pipeline , again . It really ...

Some very sweet photos ... of Primo the dog, and a Primo-adoring little girl.  As my wife would say: so sweet you'll get a cavity!  V...

An unexpectedly interesting read...   Harry Reid's Facebook page , that is.  It's a surreal collection of hard-left propaganda (from...

Watch out!   Antarctic ice is now at an all-time high .  Global warming is really starting to have an impact!

Open source seeds...   The “open source” movement started with software, but seems to be spreading to all sorts of things in a generalized p...

British Pathe documentaries are all online...   Awesome .  Free.  Like the one at right, showing a dog jumping that makes our agility do...

Dragon Lady...   Ran across this on the intertubes: the best photo I've ever seen of the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, affectionately k...

Hummers in the Delphinium luteum...   You may know this as yellow larkspur .  The hummer is a female Anna's ( Calypte anna ).  Via BPO...

Great truths...   Reader Jim M. lists 25 great truths that are well worth reading and thinking about.  One thing that struck me is just how ...

Jumping, jumping, jumping...   A former colleague from ServiceNow sent me this video, with the comment “We’ve jumped the shark...” I kno...

Grumpy cat calls it...   From a collection my mom sent out, my favorite:

Green dot illusion...   Reader Simi L. sends along this great optical illusion.  The first effect (the green dot) I saw immediately.  The se...

US Post Service – Big Data supplier?   Friend, former colleague, and reader Larry E. sends this along , saying it's another reason to ge...

Apologies for the slow blogging today...   Workmen (Lane and Pasquale) arrived today to start on some of the changes we're making to o...

For my mom ... an owl-lover from way back.  This fellow happens to be my favorite of all owls: a burrowing owl .  Click to embiggen..

Not impressed...   Delingpole, that is – he's definitely not impressed by the UN's sexism expert ...

The tax man is coming!