Aug 22, 2026 from Hackaday How the Grid’s Harmonic Filters Keep the Power Clean A fun way to think about a national electrical grid is as a massively upscaled electrical circuit, one in which you have multiple power supplies injecting AC power, with various …read more
Aug 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Against “Like Them, but Better” I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled “Like Them, but Better.” It’s Not. In the post, he makes the case against “[a] social media strategy focused entirely on the comp...
Aug 22, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Crusty Old Customers Read Crusty Old Customers Customer: "There's a tooth in this f****** roll! A f****** tooth!" Me: "Sir, I—" Customer: "—What kind of f****** slipshod place are you running here?!" Read Crusty Old Cu...
Aug 22, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- KFC Japan unveils new Tsukimi collection that takes moon-viewing to extreme levels Eggs run wild for this ever-evolving Japanese tradition. As we head towards autumn in Japan, the change of seasons brings with it one of the country’s most famous seasonal events: Tsukimi, or “Moon...
Aug 22, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection Free League Gives Its Creation More Life A while back I covered the first wave of products for Free League’s Blade Runner RPG – based off the Year Zero engine which originated in their Mutant: Year Zero RPG and which also powers their Ali...
Aug 21, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Video of My Keynote Speech at the Annual Libertarian Futurist Society Prometheus Award Ceremony The talk deals with the relationship between libertarianism and the science fiction and fantasy genres.
Aug 21, 2026 from Above the Law Matching The Milbank Scale Before Most Of Biglaw — See Also While The Rest Of Biglaw Waits On Cravath, McKool Smith Just Matched Milbank: The Texas trial powerhouse is raising associate salaries $10K to $20K — effective January 1. The 'Kool' kids always com...
Aug 21, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part Vb: Pixel Armies for Pixel Societies This is the second half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va, Vb) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, with fi...
Aug 21, 2026 from Hackaday Building a Hammond Organ to Understand How They Work The Hammond organ is an early form of electronic– or perhaps electromechanical– musical instrument. It solved the very real problem of organs normally being the sort of thing you built …read more
Aug 21, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com A Storm Powered By Main Character Energy Read A Storm Powered By Main Character Energy Me: *Shouting over the wind and siren.* "Restaurant is closed, I'm afraid! Tornado warning! Please seek shelter!" Customer: "But we have a reservation!...
Aug 21, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse The road to epsilon-zero: Shortlex order also orders sequences of numbers Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals Infinite Nim as a coin-moving game Coin-moving games with no coins Productive pro...
Aug 21, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-21-26 It is time to wrap up another perfect five-for-five Pook-Emu Bee work-week before we take tomorrow off for Newsletter Saturday. Life Updates I shared a photo of my new (Ebay, so “new”) Wacom One dr...
Aug 21, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 34/2026 With the Peppo team here in Bangalore and other commitments, the week was crazy busy. I met at least half of the Peppo team in person for the first time. We have a great team at Peppo. As Mohammed ...
Aug 21, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Masturbatory aid maker Tenga releases officially licensed anime versions in Japan and U.S. Hey, look who’s coming to Tenga! Fans of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt had to wait a long time for a follow-up to the anime series’ initial 2010 season. It wasn’t until 15 years later, in the su...
Aug 21, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Google adds Preferred Sources and enhanced content controls for Search and News Google is rolling out a Preferred Sources button that allows users to save favorite news sites for prioritized access across Search, Discover, and Google News. The company is also enabling Discover...
Aug 21, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition The Oldest Sanctuary and Prehistoric Astronomical Observatory in Central Europe Found in the Czech Republic, a Thousand Years Older than Stonehenge A team of archaeologists, led by the University of West Bohemia (UWB), has brought to light, near the town of Chleby, in present-day Czech Republic, a monumental structure dating back more than 6,5...
Aug 21, 2026 from Daily Medieval The Origin of the Langobard People The History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon drew heavily on other works, especially about prior times. One of these was a 7th-century work called Origio Gentis Langobardorum ("The Origin of the ...
Aug 21, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Beijing Ships Harmful Products It Restricts at Home Christopher Nye & Charles Sun
Aug 21, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Thimbleweed Park 2 Thimbleweed Park 2 ist in der Entwicklung und es gibt ein Dev-Blog
Aug 21, 2026 from It's FOSS Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation for Ubuntu The three-year project aims to translate hundreds of thousands of lines of C into Rust.
