This makes me want to go thumb through some old books .

More from Rocket Science :  Skies like these would make me want to do a quick inventory of my life.

Trouble engaging strangers? At first, Carrelli explained Trouble as a kind of sociological experiment in engineering spontaneous communi...

I think even Grim would want one of these machines.

My husband suggests that the Martians have run behind the nearest rock, giggling hysterically.

There are some issues that are interfering with the connection between the physical Hall and the virtual one. Enjoy yourselves, as usual wh...

The enduring fascination of war games must be the use of a model of a complex interaction to examine the myriad ways the process can play it...

Anime Music Video that is. Grim once asked "Where are the Beethovens today?" I think my answer was that one had to look to music...

Motes, beams , boys. The rise of “politics as warfare” on the Right, accompanied with militarist rhetoric, is one that my Democratic Strateg...

Those guys at the Tenth Amendment Center have an interesting suggestion for states that don't like what the NSA is doing. The Federal g...

Heh .

Mac Owens is not impressed .

A survey of several Muslim nations by Pew. The top-line is interesting, but scroll down for the percentage answering that women should be ...

Initial reports suggest we're going to be pretty angry . There is a letter of dubious authenticity but clear and understandable feeli...

He's most famous for Kung Fu films, but also produced Blade Runner . You can see his name in the fine print on this trailer. The tr...

Against last night's cold, we hung up blankets to wrap off the main living room where the iron stove is. I went ahead and shut off all ...

It's bound to work better than what the State Department and the White House have had going lately.

I'm definitely going to do #9 one of these days.

Here someone goes again, making moral judgments that equate ordinary human behavior with disgusting habits like bestiality--or, in this case...

I suppose they'll be cracking down on bitcoins soon.  It's the unregulated Wild West out there!  (These people always talk as if th...