The new US stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor, was deployed for the first time to Asia earlier this month. On Feb. 11, twelve Raptors flying from Hawaii to Japan were forced to turn back when a software glitch crashed all of the F-22s’ on-board computers as they crossed the international …

A “computer glitch” when the reporter sent my story to copy editing added an extra “o” to the word “Outlook” in the title, sending my entry into “etherland”.
You can view the entire Outlook Special online at:
http://www2.chicoer.com/specialSections/Outlook_2007/Outlook_2007.pdf (takes awhile to download, my article on Page45, which they added afterwards)
Or …

The California legislature may want to revisit the wording of their proposed ban on incandescents (AB 722). California assemblyman LLoyd Levine, a Democrat from Van Nuys in Los Angeles, wants to make California the first to ban incandescent light bulbs (by 2012) part of its new initiatives to reduce energy …

If you live near the ocean, chances are high that your home is built over sandy soil. For example many places in San Francisco are built on sandy soil or fill. Many homes built on this type of soil were badly damaged during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
When an earthquake …

Suppose a commenter posts a libelous comment here at NorCalBlogs. It’s been known to happen. Can the blogger, Enterprise Record, and its corporate owners be sued for defamation? A federal appeals court just held that no, they cannot. The court noted that a federal law was designed to ensure that …

You know you’ve reached critical mass in an argument when you start having editorial cartoons drawn about you.
In this weeks Chico Beat, the editorial cartoon above appeared. While editor Tom Gascoyne would not admit to it being my caricature that was used, a call to artist Steve Ferchaud in Paradise …

What do the numbers 923, 930, 935, 941 and 944 have in common? Answer: They’re different names for the same sunspot, this one shown above.
Greg Piepol of Rockville, Maryland, took the picture yesterday using a Solar Max Solar telescope/camera. It shows sunspot 944 coming around the sun’s eastern limb–for the …

Mila Zinkova of San Francisco who took this picture of the setting sun on Dec. 29, 2006
You have probably heard something about green flashes, but may not have seen one. If so, you’ll be happy to find that a number of pictures of green flashes are available on the Web …

No thats not the title of a new Godzilla movie, but “Deep Fried Rodan” could be.
My friends in journalism say news goes in cycles. If that is so, this must be the year of the creepy crawly restaurant.
Today I see on the TV news the shocking video (a frame of …

From the France surrenders just to be safe department :
Some “experts” think we should put the U.N. in charge of our space defense against large meteors or asteroids that could wipe out Earth. Ok, let me ask you a question.
Can you name one thing the U.N. has been able to …