Ten minutes after they arrived ... our old master bathroom is half-destroyed... Lane and Josiah take out the old granite counter top ...

He was trying to warn us about progressivism!   Beluga whale mimics human speech ...

Geek: tcpdump and BPF...   Your morning geek fix .  Learning how to analyze network traffic was one of the best investments of my geek time ...

The bureaucrat on your doctor's shoulder...   It's funny when Scott Adams mocks bureaucratic managers in Dilbert .  It's not fu...

Metropolitan Museum of Art ... posts 400,000 art works online , many in high-resolution scans.  More are coming, too.  Washington Crossin...

John Kerry deserves a magnum cum laude degree...   In climate pseudo-science.  James Delingpole tears apart Kerry's recent graduation s...

Driving through a wildfire...   In Russia.  This is surprising behavior even there, where an interesting fraction of the population is eit...

Lion, tiger, and bear, oh my!

Busy day in Paradise today...   The flooring crew will be here to finish removing the old flooring – 32 cubic yards of debris and counting. ...

We create WOW!   My brother Scott is an artist, gardener, and landscaper in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  He's recently updated his web s...

The progressive mind at work...   In this case, the mind of Elizabeth Warren.  Here's a sample of her thinking, exposed in an interview ...

38 Yahoo questions that will destroy your faith in humanity...   First let me state the obvious to any regular blog reader: I don't have...

Lavabit shutdown: the backstory...   I'd gotten bits and pieces of this from news reports, but this story is rich in details .  If you l...

You're using the wrong dictionary!  A persuasive argument for using the original Webster's dictionary , along with the means to mak...

Donald Knuth: 20 questions...   Every interview with Donald Knuth I've ever read or viewed has been fascinating, and this one is no exce...

1 in 30 Americans are collecting disability benefits...   I find that both appalling and astonishing ...

Geek: Amidakuji...   An ancient, simple pencil-and-paper way to generate random outcomes that I'd never heard of before .  As always, ...

Three great optical illusions...   The one at right and two more ...

100 great journalism pieces...   Well, slightly more than 100 , actually.  Most of the referenced pieces are new to me.  I read 10 or so thi...

Sure is noisy here today!   A crew of four is here, hard at work ripping up flooring... Update: it's knocking-off time for these ...