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Oct 04, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

A Conversation with "One of the Most Influential Supreme Court Justices of Our Time"

Jan Crawford's profile of Justice Alito based upon the interviews that will air on CBS News.

Oct 04, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Rain On Their Parade

Read Rain On Their Parade Me: "Sorry, sir, the ride is closed due to weather. It’ll reopen once the storm passes." Guest: "When will that be?" Read Rain On Their Parade

Oct 04, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 4 October 2026

Fake Parrot Sketch Edition Top Story East during the spring and west during the fall: You know you're in for a ride when you read an article that includes the sentence Most magnets have two poles: ...

Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday

AVR Laptop Pushes the Limits of 8-Bit

If you saw a device that had a laptop form factor playing sound and video, alt-tabbing over to play a game or take some notes, then back to the video …read more

Oct 04, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japanese food hack says to soak your grapes in carbonated water, but is the fizz worth the buzz?

We try a Shine Muscat experiment that method claim lets Japan’s most delicious grapes shine in a different way. Shine Muscats don’t really need to be any tastier than they already are. The extra-sw...

Oct 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re-Filling My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser 3

I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my second refill of Mr. Gingerbread Man back in July. Today, it was time for re-fill...

Oct 04, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Would You Like to Write to Me?

I really enjoy writing. Not typing - writing. With a fountain pen on good quality paper. I find the whole process cathartic; putting pen to paper demands far more use of my grey matter than hammeri...

Oct 04, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Trajan Died in a Small Cilician Port in AD 117 — Archaeologists Are Now Mapping What’s Left

In August AD 117, a ship carrying the Roman emperor put in at the coast of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey. Its most important passenger was too ill to travel any farther. Trajan had ruled ...

Oct 04, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Mazdak and Kavad

During the reign of the Sassanian dynasty's Emperor Kavad I (r. 488–531), Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion. An Iranian priest named Mazdak started preaching a different version that came to...

Oct 04, 2026 from It's FOSS

ORICO X50 Review: A Sleek Thunderbolt 5 SSD Enclosure

A slim, silver NVMe enclosure that turns your spare SSD into fast external storage. Excellent if you have Thunderbolt 5 on your machine.

Oct 04, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Pure CSS font-switch

Wie man nur mit HTML und CSS, ohne Javascript in einer statischen HTML-Datei einen Schalter baut, der die Schriftart wechselt.

Oct 04, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten S2 – Anime Review

After reviewing the first TV anime season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten back in 2023, it is only natural that I also review the second season, which aired in spring season 2026.

Oct 04, 2026 from Roy Tang

Weeknotes 2026-10-04

It is October! Somehow the year is already more than 75% over. The World Public transportation in Metro Manila had a fare increase last Monday. I'd complain, but honestly the drivers already earn s...

Oct 04, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection

Secret Passages: The First Three

Secret Passages, spearheaded by James Hoare, is a magazine that bills itself as “A celebration of classic tabletop gaming”. It defines its scope fairly broadly – in fact, it’s had at least one arti...

Oct 03, 2026 from Hackaday

A Good DIY Solder Stencil Begins With a Cleanly-Sliced Soda Can

Solder stencils are a fantastic way to accurately apply solder paste to a PCB. Professionally-made stencils are cut from steel, but for the home hacker, soda cans continue to be …read more

Oct 03, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

In Crust We Trust

Read In Crust We Trust Customer: "Can we refund our pizza, or exchange it?" Me: "What was wrong with it?" Customer: "It's cold." Me: "Okay, bring it up, and we'll get things sorted." He goes to get...

Oct 03, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Issue 300 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal

I mailed the 300th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal earlier this afternoon. I launched the newsletter back in July 2020 as a companion to The New Leaf Journal. While it still serves the purpo...

Oct 03, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Brooklyn Indoor Ladybug and Katydid Rescues

On September 16, 2026, I rescued a ladybug that had found itself lost in my room. Nine days later, I faced a bigger bug in need of rescue, and rose to the challenge.

Oct 03, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Defending Thermopylae 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCC

The Newsletter of 300 Leaves Welcome to the 300th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and ...

Oct 03, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Foreign Donors to U.S. Colleges

From Judge Tanya Chutkan (D.D.C.) Thursday evening in Ass'n of Am. Univ. v. U.S. Dep't of Ed.: Section 117 of… The post Judge Temporarily Blocks Dep't of Education Release of Names of Individual Fo...