Aug 30, 2026 from Hackaday Fat Tire Brakes Get Wireless Upgrade At first glance, wireless brakes seem like a recipe for disaster. For something as critical as braking, many bicyclists might prefer a physical connection to their method of safely controlling …rea...
Aug 30, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Is Tokyo’s Odaiba, once one of its trendiest neighborhoods, becoming a ghost town? [Photos] We check to see whether or not the rumors of Odaiba’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Odaiba is a man-made island in Tokyo Bay, but is it also a ghost town? Over the past few years, a number o...
Aug 29, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Red Bull For The Red Eye Read Red Bull For The Red Eye One night as I'm closing the gate to the store, a customer runs up. Customer: "Please! I need to do this return! It's the last day I can do it! I know it's bad plannin...
Aug 29, 2026 from Hackaday Compact PCB Vise Uses Up That Leftover Filament Needing less than 70 grams of filament, [Chefkoch]’s 3D printed PCB vise solder station might be a good way to use up some filament spool leftovers and get yourself a …read more
Aug 29, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of Noncitizens, Court Rules Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio:… The post First Amendment Broadly Protects Against Speech-Based Deportation of ...
Aug 29, 2026 from Kev Quirk The New Patrol (Liam Scott #2) The New Patrol (Liam Scott #2)Author: Andy McNabGenre: Military FictionReleased: 2014Rating: ★★★☆☆KNOW YOUR ENEMY. Liam Scott is back in Afghanistan, this time with 4 Rifles. No longer the new guy,...
Aug 29, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Union Peril 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCV Leafy intro Welcome to the 294th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form wr...
Aug 29, 2026 from The Linkfest Linkfest #48: The MouthPad, "Volitional Reconsumption", and The Genetics of Giant Pumpkins Hello there! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I slowly and patiently distill vats of science, culture and technology, just for you. If you’re a subscri...
Aug 29, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Scientist learns in front of peers why we cannot trust AI Blindly “Sutter’s cringe-inducing tale perfectly illustrates how many users of AI tools are putting themselves at risk without knowing it, including in the most rarefied echelons of academia. The science w...
Aug 29, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net DEVONthink 4.4 brings smarter AI assistant, MCP integration, and better Markdown rendering DEVONthink 4.4 Tycho has been released as the latest version of this application for professional document and information management. This update brings new AI workflows, Markdown authoring, web c...
Aug 29, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 29 August 2026 Terry Thomas Chocolate Clockwork Orange Edition Top Story Stripe has decided maybe they won't buy PayPal after all. (Axios) Apparently they got it confused with some place in Italy. China is secret...
Aug 29, 2026 from Daily Medieval Burgundian Wars The sons of Clovis saw Burgundy as a target. Sigismund of Burgundy (c.475 - 524) became king in 516. His father, Gundobad, had slain Chilperic II of Burgundy in 493. Chilperic's daughter was Clotil...
Aug 29, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Family Mart releases new Human Made Cup Noodle in Japan, with freebies for Nigo fans Japanese convenience store essential gets a cool Human Made makeover. Ever since Family Mart opened a new “Famima” flagship store in Tokyo last month, the convenience store chain has been undergoin...
Aug 29, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Tambora, the volcano that in 1815 darkened half the planet’s skies, causing the year without a summer in which Frankenstein was born In these years, when climate change dominates much of the public conversation, it is worth looking back and remembering that the planet already experienced, just over two centuries ago, a sudden an...
Aug 29, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the global e...
Aug 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Kan Gao on Why He Uses RPG Maker Kan Gao is the creator of the successful indie To the Moon series. I am not personally a fan of To the Moon. I tried the first entry and it just was not working for me, so I never finished. But des...
Aug 29, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Self-Examination Self-aware, but not self examined. That phrase has been plaguing me something fierce. Along with an actual bout of sickness I've been facing since Thursday night, it's something that has been eatin...
Aug 28, 2026 from Above the Law When Samuel Alito Is The One Calling You ‘Scary,’ You Know There’s A Problem — See Also Clarence Thomas Was "Scary" In Law School: At least according to Samuel Alito. Court watchers still think he's plenty scary now, too. SCOTUS Said Come Back With A Final Rule. The States Did. They W...
Aug 28, 2026 from Hackaday Reviving an SD Card With Shorted Capacitors A nice thing about SD cards is that even in their non-micro format they are conveniently small. This is however a bit of a problem when an SD card stops …read more
Aug 28, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com The Gift Card That Keeps On Giving, Part 38 Read The Gift Card That Keeps On Giving, Part 38 Customer: "Why is it charging me $100?" Me: "You said you wanted $100 on the gift card, right?" Customer: "Yes, but you have a 10% off everything in...
