Aug 17, 2026 from Hackaday Using the Famicom Network System in 2026 Usually, the name ‘Famicom’ and the associated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) don’t exactly bring to mind downloadable content and online services. However, at least in Japan, a modem add-on f...
Aug 17, 2026 from Daily Medieval Pepin's Rebellion There was a rebellion against Charlemagne in 792 by a handful of Frankish nobles headed by Charlemagne's eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback.An anonymous Saxon poet known only as Poeta Saxo, writing in...
Aug 17, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Japan’s Rabbit Island in danger of becoming Boar Island, tourists asked to follow feeding rules One of the cutest places in Japan needs visitors’ help keeping rabbit food, and rabbits themselves, from becoming boar food. There’s an island in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea called Okunoshima. Written ...
Aug 16, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: August 16, 2026 We’re no strangers to unusual hardware failures around these parts, but even so, a swarm of jellyfish clogging up the works is a new one to us. That’s exactly what …read more
Aug 16, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Far From Pitcher Perfect Math Read Far From Pitcher Perfect Math Customer: "Does the half pitcher have more alcohol than the full pitcher?" Me: "I mean, it would be the same alcohol percentage, but in terms of volume it would b...
Aug 16, 2026 from Above the Law Vances Learn That If You’re Not In A Side Chat, The Side Chat Is About You — See Generally Yale Law Cool Kids' Chat: JD and Usha Vance's law school classmates have kept a private Signal chat running for years to gossip about the couple's improbable turn from Yale liberals to MAGA royalty...
Aug 16, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Der Komödie erster Teil Wir haben ausgekundschaftet, wo man die Sonnenfinsternis am besten betrachten kann.
Aug 16, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Bessie’s Tape Deck – The Third Doctor Audios, Part 2 Time to check in again on Big Finish’s offerings starring the Third Doctor. As with last time, we’re still in the era when Big Finish were reluctant to recast characters whose actors had died (or, ...
Aug 16, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition A Particle Composed Only of Force: Scientists Confirm the Existence of a Previously Unknown State of Matter For more than half a century, particle physics has pursued one of the most elusive and fascinating predictions of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the theory that describes the strong nuclear force. I...
Aug 16, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 16 August 2026 Ananaisotropic Edition Top Story Every fusion power startup that has raised over $100 million. (Tech Crunch) Your weekly reminder that it is the 21st century, and not everything is poop-flavoured i...
Aug 16, 2026 from Thejesh GN Embedding Workouts using Web Component I wanted a way to represent workouts by the muscle groups they activate. Most applications where you log do it. I thought it must be easy with SVG images. It wasn’t as easy. First, I had to get an ...
Aug 16, 2026 from Matthew Brunelle's Blog I've Inadvertently Opted Out of Smart Notifications Thanks to GrapheneOS. I've been running GrapheneOS for a little over a year now and didn't realize much Smart Notifications have changed phone usage. I'm happy I had the chance to opt out of them.
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Aug 16, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Stay at a hotel with a bed for your plushie in Japan Complete with tiny matching pyjamas for your little friend. The world of fandom is vast and varied in Japan – on one hand you have fans who might show a casual interest in an actor, idol, VTuber, o...
Aug 16, 2026 from Daily Medieval Pepin the Hunchback's Treatment Charlemagne's first son was named Pepin. Shortly after his birth he developed a spinal deformity that has caused historians to refer to him as "Pepin the Hunchback."His mother was the concubine Him...
Aug 16, 2026 from GadgeteerZA nfSensei is an open source fork of pfSense, by the original creator, for Linux “nfSensei is a modern network operating system built from scratch in Rust with a React frontend, designed around a single principle: one API to rule them all. The CLI, the web UI, and the on-device...
Aug 16, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Today in Supreme Court History: August 16, 1933 8/16/1933: President Roosevelt adopts the Code of Fair Competition for the Governance of the Petroleum Industry. The Supreme Court declared… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 16, 1933...
Aug 16, 2026 from Roy Tang Weeknotes 2026-08-16 My Week Another rainy week, though it let up a bit the past few days. Google Fit says I walked 76,313 steps from last Sunday to yesterday, breaking well past my quota and making up for my shortfall...
Aug 15, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Deflated Bee 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIII Welcome to the 293rd 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 writing sister...
Aug 15, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com More Than A Few Loose Shingles Read More Than A Few Loose Shingles Me: "Okay, that's going to be a special-order item, which has a minimum-purchase quantity of nine bundles, and a ten-business-day turnaround time." Caller: "But ...
