An amazing story...   I hope Americans never forget it...

Friends in Paradise...   We spent the last couple of days with Jim and Suzy F., friends from our former life in San Diego.  I've known...

Good neighbors in Paradise...   On the advice of Debbie's physical therapist, I ordered a treadmill (exercise machine) last week.  It ca...

Morning walk in Paradise...   The dogs (Miki and Race) were excited this morning, because for the first time in three days they got to go on...

Paradise town council excitement...   Two open seats, three candidates – an actual contest !  Woo hoo!  Break out the popcorn! I don't...

The stupid!   It burns!  It burns! When I first saw this, I didn't believe it was real.  It just had to be a parody.  Published in ...

Light blogging alert!   We've got guests this weekend, so I won't find myself sitting in front of my desk very much.  I know they th...

Charon, moon of Pluto ... as we've never seen it before.  This is a synthetic photo, false colored using data and images collected by t...

Here's a technology to watch...   Optical rectennas .  “Huh?”, you say?  These are devices built with nano-materials that convert ligh...

U.S. labor force participation rate: 62.4%.   That's the lowest since the middle of the Carter recession in 1977 .  Remember that?  If...

Of buggies and books...   This article reads almost exactly like similar articles published in the early 1900s (especially the paean to cra...

Dinner in Paradise...   Last night we had dinner at a restaurant in Logan that we've never tried: Le Nonne (which, apparently, is Itali...

Theoretical limit exceeded?   Well, it was only theoretical , right?

Weird happenings on Saturn...   The rings tell the story ...

The U.S. is still bombing ... the places where “We’ve ended two wars.”   Glenn Greenwald, not exactly a conservative demagogue, takes Obama...

The “Wil can fly!” site ... has launched , and the calendars are for sale now.  Alan just announced that the final proof has been approve...

Classic bug reports...   I had some geekly fun with this site .  One gem: R. Clint Whaley 2007-03-09 20:22:32 UTC I'd like to welcom...

Sorting colors ... is much more difficult than you might imagine!  Years ago I worked on a compression scheme for a remote control produ...

Eston Kohver is back home in Tallinn...   He was freed in a prisoner exchange strongly reminiscent of the Cold War spy swaps.  Kohver was ...

Peeple ... a new web application launching in November, will let anyone “rate” anyone else, and view the ratings of anyone on the site.  Th...