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Oct 10, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

My Chickenpox Memories

I recall just beating the chickenpox vaccine with a genuine case of chickenpox.

Oct 10, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

What On Earth Happened Last Year?!

Read What On Earth Happened Last Year?! Customer: "Y'all got any Band Aids?" Me: "Yes, right over here—" Customer: "Y'all got any Band Aids for internal bleeding?" Read What On Earth Happened Last ...

Oct 10, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

The Katydid Next Door 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCCI

Virid Intro Welcome to the 301st 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...

Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday

Restoring an Altimeter Watch to Former Heights

Finding inexpensive broken hardware for sale, buying it, and restoring it to working condition is a long-standing tradition for hackers on a limited budge. But there are some devices that …read more

Oct 10, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

2,800-Year-Old Skulls From a Picene Iron Age Necropolis Have a Flattened Back

Any pediatrician has seen it: a baby who spends so many hours lying on their back that one side of the head ends up flat. The condition is called deformational plagiocephaly, from the Greek plagios...

Oct 10, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Uncle Vistahm

An uncle willing to kill your father might not be the best person in whom to put your faith. Vistahm and his brother Vinduyih killed Iranian Emperor Hormizd IV (they had reasons) and put his son on...

Oct 10, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 10 October 2026

Wavy Tableau Edition Top Story The US government have suspended US companies Microsoft, Adobe, and Cognizant, and a bunch of European and Indian IT companies as well, from the H-1B visa scheme. (Te...

Oct 10, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japanese milk carton cakes are a genius idea that the world needs to know about

We’ve got all the details on where to find them, and how to eat them. There are many, many supermarket chains in Japan, but one of the most popular is Gyomu Super. Colloquially known as “Gyo-su”, t...

Oct 10, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Beijing’s London Embassy as an Integrated Threat

Sze-Fung Lee

Oct 10, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

No phone signal? LastBar will find the nearest place that has it.

“LastBar is a map of where mobile phones have signal and where they do not, made by the phones of the people who use it. When you are stuck with no bars, it gives you the distance and the direction...

Oct 10, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Today in Supreme Court History: October 10, 2012

10/10/2012: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin I argued. The post Today in Supreme Court History: October 10, 2012 appeared first on Reason Magazine.

Oct 10, 2026 from It's FOSS

BentoPDF Handles PDFs Locally, So You Don’t Have to Upload Them to Websites

This open source, browser-based PDF toolkit is free to use and ships with a surprisingly long list of tools.

Oct 10, 2026 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed

Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2

In order to follow a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy, you should have three copies of your important data: two local on different media types, and one off site. For local, I have a DAS with two 14TB d...

Oct 10, 2026 from Boris Tane

Self-improving software is inevitable

Production tells us exactly how to make our software better, we've just never had the tools to run this on auto-pilot.

Oct 09, 2026 from Above the Law

Nobel Prize Winner Roasts Trump — See Also

After The Cornell 7, It's Time To Hold Bystanders And Enablers Accountable: Accountability can't begin and end with the perpetrator(s). No Nobel Peace Prize For Trump: Instead, it went to a human r...

Oct 09, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Okay, Wheel Talk

Read Okay, Wheel Talk I worked in a theme park. A woman wanted me to rent her a wheelchair. Her tone was immediately entitled and aggressive, and I admittedly tone-matched. Customer: "Just do it on...

Oct 09, 2026 from Hackaday

Embedded 3D Printing with Liquids on a Bricked Prusa FDM Printer

Recently [Riley] got his paws on an old Prusa i3 FDM printer that had clearly seen better days, with a hot-end that had suffered an explosive blow-out. For the project …read more

Oct 09, 2026 from Previous Magazine

Ways to Make Watching a Sporting Event More Fun and Engaging

There’s nothing better than the feeling of cheering your team on. And with all kinds of sporting events happening throughout the year, the fun just keeps coming. Watching matches is just one way to...

Oct 09, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Statement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can't Be Actionable Group Defamation

From today's First Circuit decision today in Bean Maine Lobster, Inc. v. Monterey Bay Aquarium Found., written by Judge Julie… The post Statement About Maine Lobster Industry as a Whole Can't Be Ac...

Oct 09, 2026 from R74n Newsletter

New Minigame: Human Tier List

You can now rank every human on Earth with a single webpage.