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This is cool: After a secret trip across the English Channel, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil for the first time since it was m...

Tomorrow is Father's Day here in the States.  I don't know where you are but this is what's Top Of Mind here. From a musical per...

Next week this blog turns 18 (!).  That's a milestone that makes you think back on the journey. This journey began in the lead up to the...

Via Insty, here's proof of the utter futility of gun control : A man named Tyler Brown opened fire on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Mass....

The horse on the left is Golden Tempo, a 23-1 long shot who won the Kentucky Derby.  The jockey is Jose Ortiz who won the Kentucky Oaks race...

The English language has evolved for basically as long as there has been English.  A great book on this subject is Robin MacNeil (and compan...

Long time Internet Security guy Fred Cohen has some interesting thoughts on how AI can be less obnoxious [PDF]: The nature of the problem (...

Who knew? 

Things looked bleak for Great Britain in 1940.  France had fallen and even with the "Miracle of Dunkirk" the British Army didn...

Well, they're sure acting like stalkers : You might recall that in late 2024, Earth gained a temporary mini-moon, an asteroid that part...

This is actually pretty clever : The   attack   involves hiding prompt instructions in a pdf file—white text on a white background—that tell...

If true, this is really cool : ARCHAEOLOGISTS have used satellite imagery to identify a site in Newfoundland that could be the first new Vik...

A bunch of States have State Dinosaurs ?  I guess that since it's true that nobody's Life, Liberty, or Property are safe when the Le...

Do Manatees control their buoyancy by farting? Manatees are incredibly intelligent marine mammals who show long-term memory and associative...

Today is the day with the longest period of daylight (in the Northern Hemisphere; in the Southern it's the longest night). Here in the S...

Big Country is doing a series of Lee-Enfield restorations which are well worth your time if you (like me) love old Mil-Surp bolties. By acc...

OK, the post title is intentionally inflammatory, but here's a pointer to a very heterodox view on the subject : Patch Tuesday has roll...

This was so full of win that it is in danger of collapsing into a Black Hole of win. But let me give you some background about why.  Longtim...

Home AI computer for $250 : NVIDIA is taking the wraps off a new compact generative AI supercomputer, offering increased performance at a lo...

Oh my word : On Saturday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that OpenAI's Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated text i...