This blog is closing down. Possibly for good. I can no longer afford, at the present time, to maintain it as actively as I would like. Long...

Whoever you are, I hope we have the pleasure of meeting someday. But until then, get the flying f--- out of there. (In case nobody has heard...

Fifty years ago today Jack Kilby, an engineer at Texas Instruments, demonstrated what is today known as the first microchip. It wasn't ...

In an update to the earlier story , a friend has told me that gas is now just over $7 not far over the line in South Carolina. Which makes ...

A trusted source in the Raleigh/Durham area here in North Carolina called to let me know that the price of regular gasoline there is now $4....

Barring some meteorological miracle, Hurricane Ike is set to be one for the ages. We've got a lot of friends and even some family down t...

Yeah, I had way too much time on my hands this evening... With kindest regards to Bob Peak, who did the amazing poster for Apocalypse Now f...

We do not need any more elected officials who believe that God is telling them to change the world. What we need and cannot get enough of ar...

NBC, September 11, 2001, from 8:31 am to 9:12 a.m. EST: That's what I happened to have been watching that morning, after I turned on my ...

World-renowned moonshiner and American folk hero Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton (shown at left, along with one of his finely-crafted dis...

popgive.com found this photo of some scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider (which began operation this morning and it's yet t...

I'm not going to even begin to attempt to recap everything that's taken place over almost two years now regarding Ron Price , the R...

Today U.S. House member Ron Paul, who has been a candidate in this year's presidential election, called on voters to end the "chara...

So this afternoon my good friend Bmovies sends me an e-mail about a new post that he had made on his blog and that I should check it out. ...

A few minutes ago Phillip Arthur e-mailed me, and he seemed unusually ecstatic about a new trailer for the upcoming James Bond movie Quantu...

This one is way too wacky to pass up commenting on... The Large Hadron Collider is a few hours away from getting turned on for the first tim...