On missing bookmarks and other internet matters. Lately, I've been cleaning up some bookmarks on my computer and finding many no longer exist.

An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played at a trial.

A simple vane gear with illustrations from the French magazine Loisirs Nautique that works great, costs little, and can be easily constructed.

Wary of Trumpian tampering, scientists have taken matters into their own hands.

I just saw that SERAFFYN, a 58-year old wooden boat that just resonates history, is for sale. With an asking price of $80K, it's obviously not within any VolksCruiser's budget but...

Every country you've ever screwed is paying for you at the pump, and none of them will fucking forget it.

Today, my work list includes maybe ten-minutes of sanding inside the boat. It's a fairly easy task. The downside is I'll be dealing with the fallout for the next week or so.

An unusual schoonner... Back when I was asking Phil about a bigger version of Loose Moose, he suggested something like the Breakdown Schooner

A Black Hawk pilot who left both legs in Iraq has told her own party's leadership to cut it out, on C-SPAN, in four words. Fumble it a second time and there won't be a third.

A blast from the past... Here's an interesting ad for a boat I really liked before the prices got insane...

Trump spat the dummy on a tarmac in North Carolina. Carney answered in front of 27 nations, and every Australian on Earth heard exactly what he said.

I'll go on record that an electric drive propulsion system is as simple as one can get. All you need is a motor, a means of controlling that motor, and a battery.

Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed a floating children’s library and donated it to Kagawa prefecture. “We created reading spaces throughout the ship. A larg

$2k propulsion system: It's fairly easy to push a boat on the water. Thomas Colvin's 1HP per ton makes sense.

As dengue spreads further outside its normal tropical zones, doctors and patients need to know what to watch for.

YouTube video by derbygus

Jason Sattler, whose online name is LOLGOP, thinks we shouldn't talk about Donald Trump's promised $5000 bribe checks in a skeptical way -- ...

Their fuel bill today... A bunch of years back in the BVI, we were sitting next to a couple who had just completed the Caribbean 1500 who told us they'd only motored 40 hours or so.

And then to cap it all off, Billy Idol came out for a cover of his former band's "Ready, Steady, Go" before sticking around for the closer, "Blitzkireg Bop."

I just read how some folks in the know think there's a 10% chance that AI could kill all humans. So, here's a semi-connected question...

Nothing can be done to stop the world from passing the tipping point of global temperature increase

More thoughts on what I'd do... So, yeah, junk rig. Back when I was hanging out in the bay area in the 70s...

Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water

YouTube video by Novara Media

YouTube video by Baby Blues, by Phil Bolger

The other day I saw that someone was considering adapting a Westerly Centaur over to junk rig. It got me thinkin' what i'd do

At the height of their productivity as Beatles, neither Paul McCartney nor John Lennon could read or write music notation. Clearly it didn't keep them from making a cultural impact, and as with so muc...

Garry Hoyt's website is no longer around. Ideas and brilliant thought, on the internet are just so much design legacy dust in the wind.

One reason that people are looking past the everyday corruption of this era is that this era is defined by everyday corruption, more from Republicans than Democrats but also too many Democrats, with t...

So, as it happens, Starlink has just come up with a half-assed reasonable plan called Personal Maritime, and while it costs more...

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on watching the end of the empire

This is a very cool tool. You can't ever have too many clamps. One area of clamping tech that makes sense is using vacuum bags.

I closed The History (and present) of World Mosquito Day with my choice for today. PBS NewsHour has another segment on how scientists are f...

Of late, I've been thinking a lot about the Peugeot UO-8 bicycle. Partly because it has the best touring frame anyone has ever built...