Zookeepers had been baffled by 2 polar bears that wouldn’t mate.  They finally got to the bottom of the matter by putting one of the bears under anesthesia and looking at its, well, bottom.  They found that the male polar bear isn’t a male at all—he is a female.  That... [Read More]

I decided it was time to install the Beta for ASP.NET MVC and start playing with it when I’m bored.  My gut was to go to Phil’s blog, dig around, find the link to the Beta, follow it, download it and futz through the installation process.  But I cringed at... [Read More]

Scientists are mapping the DNA of the woolly mammoth.  They’re talking about how they could bring the animal back from extinction.  Seriously?  You saw that movie, right?  Yeah, sure, they were dinosaurs, but my guess is that a woolly mammoth could eat you too.  Maybe extinction was their ploy for... [Read More]

Not long after I joined Microsoft, I was looking at the Silverlight Airlines code sample.  I was new to Silverlight, so I used this demo as a way to help learn Silverlight.  The demo app is pretty cool, and ScottGu showed it off at Mix, so I had seen it... [Read More]

When we moved to the greater Seattle area, we knew we’d be in for some rain.  They don’t call it Mt. Rainier for nothing – it’s rainier here than most places.  But there was an aspect of Seattle that we didn’t quite expect—the dark side of Seattle. I don’t mean... [Read More]