Rain in Paradise...   Yesterday evening I captured this screenshot of our local weather radar (click to embiggen) – rainstorms approaching...

Magic show...   Cute, despite being French.  Via reader Simi L...

Barn: ready for walls...   The last concrete cuts were made this morning, and the concrete has been washed and swept off.  All the lumber ne...

All about circuits...   Electronics texts and references ...

Time-waster of the day...   An in-browser two-dimensional gravity simulator .  You can create objects (“particles”) with an optional speed v...

He ate what?   This year's winners in the veterinary X-ray contest .  The X-ray at right shows a tiny toy alien eaten by a kitten...

McIntyre the merciless...   The original hide-the-decline ...

An ice-leaf...   More here ...

2059 Headlines...   Somehow my brother Mark has obtained a copy: Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh larges...

Friends in Paradise...   Yesterday evening, two new friends of ours in Paradise (Bruce and June N.) brought me a present: two locally grown ...

Perfect...

Explosive volcanic eruption ... captured on video.  I sure hope nobody was anywhere near that caldera when this happened...

This is what happens ... when you fly a drone right through a fireworks display.  Spectacular!  I'm amazed the drone survived this on...

Baby hippos are cute!   Click to embiggen...

Why is modern art so bad?   A call for a return to objective judgment of art quality, instead of today's conspicuous abandonment of it...

Right out of Hitler's playbook...   Russia has abducted an Estonian military officer , at gunpoint, from Estonian territory.  Typically,...

Math beats thieving government tricksters...   Ha !  But I'll bet they take away the “Other” button!

Rappel into an erupting volcano?   Um, no, not me.  Tempting, but that looks too risky for my taste.  But this guy said “yes!”

Vacationers' complaints...   These are allegedly actual complaints by customers of Thomas Cook Vacations.  They're splattered all ov...

I thought this was from the Onion at first ... but it's for real.  Some folks in San Diego are quite upset about the city passing an or...