Nowhere Near the Edge

"Hybrids," or automobiles with both gasoline engines and electric motors designed to propel the vehicle, are the cool gadget to ha...

Here's a fun little internet time-waster. Remarkably, this is my result (I absolutely kid you not): You are a Porsche 911! You have a...

You have probably seen those motivational pictures of dramatic landscapes coupled to vague power words and motivational statements. You may...

In space news you might have missed, the space probe "Stardust," which flew through the tail of a comet, will be returning to eart...

Having spent a fair amount of time exiting local hardware stores during my time off over the holidays, I was again confronted with one of th...

My microwavable burrito (hey, I happen to like phosphates) came with stupifyingly accurate cooking instructions. Why doesn't every cook...

No sooner do I take Lincoln to task for burdening its new compact sedan with the Zephyr moniker than FoMoCo decides to eliminate names for...

In what has become a Christmas tradition, I spent the evening cooking Christmas Eve dinner for our family, including my in-laws, and cleanin...

For those of you interested in spectacular or merely intriguing aviation videos, this is a pretty good site. Be warned, some of the videos...

I've been mentally composing a major discussion of car naming conventions. Something has happened recently, though, that demands a respo...

Things have been busy lately. Our annual Christmas Concerts took place this past weekend: four concerts in two days, following tech/dress ...

Seen at a small, fenced-in playground at the San Francisco Civic Center (a homeless haven): "Adults prohibited unless accompanied by Ch...

The Mighty Tigers have finally been silenced. Kelly’s team surrendered to the Grey Wolves on Saturday by a score of 2-1. (One would have tho...

Yesterday's skidding crash of a Southwest 737 at Chicago's Midway airport bears an uncomfortable resemblance to an incident involvi...

I have long been an enthusiast of the space program. I am too young to remember the last days of the Apollo missions, but I vividly remembe...

Two days, two games, two wins. Kelly's team is on to yet another weekend of playoff games after defeating a couple of the best teams fr...

No more cuticle disasters while on vacation, ma'am. Feel free to carry your trusty Phillips head screwdriver, sir! Small pointy things...

If Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal (the current "it" couple of the indie movie scene) were to have a son, would they be requ...

This day, as with almost every national holiday, is best celebrated with at least a passing remembrance of how it came to be. As we work ou...

Powerful words, from March 20, 2003: “It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military ...