Grout...   The fellow who did the tile work in our remodeled master bathroom did a really nice job, but there was one imperfection that we d...

Buh-bye, hard disks!   A terabyte on a postage stamp , faster and more durable than flash memory, coming soon. The first non-volatile RAM ...

Good doggy!

Seen in Los Angeles...   No normal human could ever figure this out ...

The complete Feynman lectures ... are now online ...

Crassula ovata...   Via BPOD , of course...

Pretty much...   Via my CCPOAA mom...

We can fix anything...   My CCPOAA mom sends along this ad, with the comment: “What every married man and suspicious wife need to know!”

Break up the NSA ... and save the Internet.  Bruce Schneier , in Wired ...

Your life, in graphics...   Via reader Simi L.  Ha!

Dangerous U.K. law...   We need to do our best to make certain this doesn't happen here.  The law in question requires U.K. citizens to ...

Barn: the backfilling marches on...   Another 30 or 40 yards of pit run got dumped today.  The builder is hoping that all the needed pit run...

Worthless scanners – the TSA's security theater...   Marine, reader, former colleague, and friend Larry E. links to this article and co...

The strange & curious tale of the last true hermit...   A great read about Christopher Knight, the man who lived for 27 years in the Ma...

Mother Nature whacks the environmentalists upside the head again ...   Several decades ago, scientists told the world that CFCs were causing...

Inferiority induction, part 2...

Wow!  This makes me feel unworthy to even look at a woodworking tool...

Vintage medical devices...   Like the “Domestic Enema Machine” at right, from the 1830s.  More here ...

Ha!   SMBC ...

“You want a Caliphate?  Fine.  Then we’ll attach a fuse to the end of it and set that bitch on fire.”   Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom ha...