Objectivist cartoonists? Yep ... and they're pretty funny too. Read the full story.

Dennis Miller vs. North Korea Read the full story.

Want to avoid future blackouts? Build more power plants ... and stop the anti-technology, anti-human environmentalists. Read the full story.

To truly improve space flight safety, America should be fostering competition among private space companies, rather than just modifying existing safety guidelines. Compelling NASA to compete will force it to upgrade its antiquated administrative culture while allowing it to focus on the tasks its good at: exploration. Read the full story.

When launched, the new infrared telescope will be capable of seeing extremely cold objects, like unborn comets in the Kuiper Belt. It will also see through dust clouds, such as those shrouding the core of our own galaxy. Read the full story.

While I was at work the other day, I was the proud recipient of Jordan's very first e-mail.

And here's what it had to say:

"m, mmkkk/ bvn bu nmr b 6fcb ,mmm"

Brillant eh? Seems she was happily pounding away at the keyboard while Sue was trying to get some work done, so Sue decided to letter send of a quick note to Dad. It totally made my day.

Of course, in hindsight we've realized that teaching Jordan to happily bash a computer keyboard probably isn't a good idea. So we got her a little piano that she can bash away on (as well as a little laptop of her own, but the buttons aren't as bashable as the piano's ... or my Mac's).

Directions on how to find Mars. The Red Planet won't be this close to Earth again for 60,000 years. Read the full story.

People are spending a lot of money on crappy telescopes to see Mars. This article advises folks to either stop by a local astronomy club, or spend $500+ to buy a decent scope. Read the full story.

I think the title sums things up rather nicely. Read the full story.

I love my five-month-old daughter Jordan greatly. But that's not to say that she can't be very, very trying at times.

Like last night. Or should I say yesterday morning?

I put her down at around 11 p.m., then headed downstairs to finish up a level in Futurama, a PS2 game I'm in the process of reviewing. At around midnight I came back upstairs, creeping quietly, so I don't think it was me that woke Jordan up. But you never know.

What I do know is that at 12 a.m. she was up, and not just up, she was bouncing off the freaking ceiling. She was very happy about being awake, and an enthusiastic five-month-old is a hard thing to take at midnight. You can't just let her play in her crib until she falls asleep -- she's still too little for that, and she wants to be ... occupied. And last night, that meant making googly eyes at Daddy while he was trying to rock her back to sleep, and then happily kicking her mom awake when Dad gave up and brought her to bed, hoping that would calm her down.