The Kfz 2 kleines Kettenkraftrad, aka 'Kettenkrad', was one of the more iconic Wehrmacht vehicles, from its repeated appearance in magazines like Signal, the Wehrmacht's propaganda vehicle. It was developed to fill the role of a light artillery tractor, with the restriction that it had to be able to fit into a Ju-52…

Two wrongs may not make a right, but two Wrights make an airplane.

This is more-or-less the premise behind Turtledove's "Worldwar" series — the Race, a reptiloid species that has already absorbed the Rabotev and Hallesi into its STL interplanetary empire (for whom the phrase 'with all deliberate speed' would be viewed as incomprehensibly fast), observes the Earth around the Middle…

Version 1.0.4, the current version of AirDroid, doesn't support external SD cards... which is where I have the majority of my files. This makes AirDroid less than useful to me, as managing the files on the external SD card is what I would want such an application for.

Which is the operative aspect of the illustration? The butterfly or the steaming cow patty it's perched on?

And it doesn't even have the team variety of Moopsball...

It may be pandering to the fan base, unlike his insistance that Greedo always shot first, but it is after all, more licensing fees coming into Lucasfilm.

I have to agree. And considering that this is a car which would be unlikely to be ever taken far enough away from a road for the woodland-esque camouflage to be useful, it seems to me that it would be better to have it finished in an urban digital pattern, with an interior done in matching colors, not patterns — for…

Looking up the Chevrolet Stageway, they were made in 1959, although the pictures above indicate that it's had some work done on the body at least on the left side; the pictures you can find on the Net show the left side panelwork with what appears to be two door panels behind the driver's door, although there are no…

"You know what they say — 'If life gives you lemons, make lemonade'!"

I'm immediately reminded of this cartoon...

There are times when it gets quite annoying how 'spicy' has become conflated with 'hot' in general usage. There is an Indian dish that I love which I use to show people the difference — a poultry biryani that has onions, ginger, garlic, bay leaves, cloves, cardamom pods, and (with the doubled-recipe size I always…

That's what I keep pointing out to people when they try the salsa I make for the first time. Anyone can just throw more and more chiles into the mix until no one can eat it, but it takes a degree of artistry to build a salsa where, when you eat it, you get all the flavor of the salsa before the burn hits.

Back in college, a group of us faced just that problem. We broke out the jack and repeatedly jacked up the rear end of the car about four inches, then pushed it over sideways until the car was lined up with the parking spot. And then scavenged some conveniently-nearby cinder blocks to put under the rear axles so the…

Airbus needs to work on their technique; if they use up an airliner each time, their tree-trimming service is going to be priced way out of reach for the average consumer.

Perhaps a better example would have been Christian Scientists refusing to allow blood transfusions in their health care policies for employees?

She kept circling back to one thing that I've had reservations about and would like to ask here... How does this not violate the First Amendment?

I don't understand how Obama's PR people haven't picked up on what seems to me to be the obvious response to all the self-righteous "religious freedom" rhetoric — that by mandating the provision of contraception as part of medical insurance coverage, the government is preserving religious freedom by preventing an…

When I was a kid, on one of our family camping trips up to Big Basin State Park north of Monterey, we ran into a swarm of ladybugs. I remember that we took a carefully washed and dried plastic tub and collected about a pint and a half of ladybugs right before we left to go home, and then scattered them carefully…

The pre-rendering is going to have to go away — or at least be disabled by default — if Google wants to make Chrome the go-to browser for mobile devices, though. There's no way in hell that I want to have my browser guessing what page I want to go to next and burning through my data allowance to pre-load pages I may…