Borepatch

52 years ago today, the Oregon Highway Division tried to remove a whale carcass.  With dynamite .  Now there's a country music song for ...

Dragon's Breath .410 Flame Thrower shotshells . Now I always considered the Judge to be a bit gimmicky, and these incendiary shotshells ...

Shamelessly stolen from David Drake .

Well, IPv4 addresses .  I think that this time it's for sure.  Maybe. It doesn't look like it's making much - or any - differe...

This cracked me up. Give 'til it hurts Ready to head out to the Goodwill store? Better go over the checklist of items to drop o...

This is a post I put up a long time ago, but which captures the sense of classical music for Independence Day pretty well. ---------------...

Tim Woler excavates some World War I munitions .  I can see why construction crews call in the archaeologists before building on what was th...

Samsung exploding washing machines . I literally do not have anything to add to that, and all y'all know how wordy I usually get.

Are you running late for a flight?  Worried that you're going to miss it?   Don't do this : A Canadian idiot has been sentenced t...

There's all sorts of mischief you could do with one of these : Once a proof-of-concept, the pocket-sized USB stick now fits in any se...

Joe emails to point out the large dollar losses that can be inflicted with the click of a mouse: Amid all the noise the Sony hack genera...

Well, dropped a nuke on it.  It was on this day in 1958 : The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the U...

I've been posting for something like 4 years that the security of industrial control systems (SCADA) that run our energy and other infra...

The IETF  is the Internet Engineering Task Force, the ones who work on and publish all the technical specifications for Internet communicati...

The Gaijin email to point out this reddit thread on the best way to code PHP to let remote web suers create new users (!) on the web server ...

On this day in 1054, Chinese astronomers observed a new star in the heavens.  Its brightness waxed until it was visible not just at night bu...

Hilarious bad idea.  Kind of what you'd expect from a site called ExplodingWhale.com . You're welcome.  And this is pretty funny, ...

The BBC used to air a show called Ground Force , where a team of quasi-amateurs would do a makeover on someone's yard over a weekend.  I...

Stupid Mayans *. Now I guess I have to fill out my HR self-evaluation for my annual review. Oh, and it's winter now** too.  Yay. * Y...