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Read I met a guy through a dating website. We had rollerskating in common, so we went to a rollerskating rink for our first date together. Once we got into the skating rink, he started breaking out...

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Japan’s craziest burger chain takes menchi katsu to new extreme levels

We find out what gives the Naughty Menchi Katsu Burger its unusual name.  Japanese-born Dom Dom Burger has carved out a niche for itself as an edgy fast food chain, consistently wowing us with out-...

Lying Has Consequences, Feds — See Also

Liars Keep Losing In Court: Judges keep catching federal officers with their pants on fire. These Aren't The Lawyers You've Been Looking For: OpenAI helps shut down fake law empire. When Mardi Gras...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sure Knew How To Turn A Phrase

His impact even extends to pop culture. The post Oliver Wendell Holmes Sure Knew How To Turn A Phrase appeared first on Above the Law.

Fish & Chips With A Side Of Guesswork

Read Fish & Chips With A Side Of Guesswork Worker: "It'll be ready in [garbled] minutes." Me: "Sorry, was that 15 or 50? One-five or five-zero?" Worker: *Same garbled number.* Me: "Fifteen, one-fiv...

The ‘Firefly’ Tease?

Nathan Fillion continues to tease something on the Instagram page for the Once We Were Spacemen podcast he hosts with Alan Tudyk. Having once been for a long time the enthusiasm crusher in Firefly ...

Unripe septics, unripe Commandments, and technological advances.

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Daily News Stuff 27 February 2026

Flying Or Non-Flying Edition Top Story If your corporate wifi has a guest network active, tell whoever is responsible that they might not want to do that. (Tom's Hardware) Same goes for home wifi t...

The fish in rural Fukui that rivals Japan’s most auspicious sea bream

This Obama delicacy impresses with its sashimi-like flavor, which is almost unthinkable for a preserved food. Despite its popularity among dinosaur enthusiasts, Fukui remains among the more undervi...

GNOME 2.20 but its Web Components

Just because we could didn't mean that we should

Measles and echo chambers, fresh science, and more

Behind the Curtain (Feb 27)

Weekly Notes 09/2026

The work has been hectic. I actually don’t like hectic mode. I prefer being prepared and doing planned activities. But I do understand that not all real-world things can be planned, so one will fee...

Firefox AI Killswitch

Nice to see that the Firefox team have actually implemented their "AI killswitch" in the way that they said they would. Here's a screenshot from my copy of Firefox 148: Very happy to see this land,...

Boring Wins - Stop Trying to Be Interesting

I’ve been obsessed with studying how enterprises actually hold onto accounts. How do they keep them, grow them, and eventually make them impossible to remove?

Vibe Coding a Fluxbox Inspired Wayland Compositor

Everything after this paragraph was written with AI. I had Claude Code generate this post from it’s memories, git logs, shell history and interview after working on this project. Written by Claude:...

Dental Formulas

On the importance of thought leadership

Over the last 20+ years in IT, I’ve been lucky enough to work across many roles and industries. In that time, I’ve always found that the work we do, and that we’re measured against, is only one sid...

Executive Order Excluding Federal Agencies from Collective Bargaining Requirements Was Wrongly Enjoined, Ninth Circuit Holds

From today's opinion in Am. Fed. of Gov't Employees v. Trump, by Judge Daniel Bress, joined by Judges John Owens… The post Executive Order Excluding Federal Agencies from Collective Bargaining Requ...

Taking An Elevator To A Higher Calling

Read Taking An Elevator To A Higher Calling I worked for several years as a civilian contractor on a naval base. Our particular building had an auditorium used for various conferences. One day, as ...