The God Particle, Martians, Tricky People & other news of the week

Higgs-Boson, child identity theft, and other news of the week

Weekly Hodge-Podge of Moderately Useful &/or Interesting Things

How to make your own watermark for photos, papal resignation trivia, and other news of the week.

The Five-Year-Old takes a stand: “No killing tigers. Period.”

I’m still working flat-out trying to catch up from last week’s vacation, but that’s ok, because The Five-Year-Old has commandeered Caterpickles this morning for a Public…

My view today

Our third snowstorm in three weeks didn’t drop quite enough snow to make snow cream, but I’ll happily settle for lacy trees and a day off…

Is it the weekend yet?

As you may have noticed, I’m reserving most of my words this week for my novel-in-progress. But I wanted to share with you this amazing photo…

Happy Valentine’s Day, Y’all!

Oh what a difference 24 hours makes…

The Five-Year-Old provided for scale. The drift behind her is our Camry. But it could be worse. At least it hasn’t been raining spiders. Related Links:…

Weremice and other news of the week

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, but that’s not because I haven’t been reading the news. Well, ok, maybe it’s a little because I haven’t been reading the news. But mostly it’s because I haven’t been reading the news with an eye to blogging about it. But really, how could anyone resist blogging about a predatory desert mouse? And if you’re going to do that, is it really that big a deal to tack on a photo of the universe’s largest spiral galaxy, a cheese recipe, and this week’s edition of Parenting Advice from Facebook?

If you can read this, I need you to disable Java in your web browser, please

In case you haven’t seen the story making the rounds on Facebook and other mainstream media outlets, Java 7 has yet another critical security flaw. This one makes it really easy for hackers to take over your browser and steal your identity.