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

From Small Change To A Big Change

Read From Small Change To A Big Change I used to work in a small local store back when I was a teen. An old grumpy regular guy would make a show of slamming his cash down on the counter, even if I ...

Oct 10, 2026 from Hackaday

2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: NEC 286 Laptop Rides Again

The sad reality is that all consumer electronics are going to be e-waste eventually. [Cory Whitesell] was determined his old NEC ProSpeed 286 Laptop wouldn’t meet that fate until absolutely …read more

Oct 10, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

7-Eleven Japan now has Milk Miso Curry Ramen, but is that too much for one cup? [Taste test]

A special kind of regional ramen makes its 7-Eleven instant noodle debut, with help from the makers of Sapporo Ichiban. Nothing else has such a fundamental effect on the quality of ramen as the bro...

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.

Oct 09, 2026 from Kev Quirk

2026-10-09 20:15: First fire of the year and Sid is loving it. Not sure we appreciated the...

First fire of the year and Sid is loving it. Not sure we appreciated the giant queen wasp that came bumbling out of the chimney though. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are ...

Oct 09, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 9 October 2026

Wormsmith Edition Top Story Global PC shipments have plunged 20%, shocking industry analysts. (Notebook Check) Who expected the numbers to be much worse. One of them tried to blame it on "macro con...

Oct 09, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Japan lodges formal complaint with China for calling Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Sanae Takaichi

What isn’t in a name? Speaking at a press conference on October 7, Toshihiro Kitamura, press secretary for Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, addressed the latest piece of diplomatic friction bet...

Oct 09, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Deno team joins Cloudflare as runtime development winds down

The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to work with the Workers and Durable Objects teams on a shared platform for distributed applications. Official Deno runtime development will end after one year o...

Oct 09, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 41/2026

This week was good. I got back to my routine after two weeks of travel and a hectic schedule. Work is progressing well; I did two P.T. sessions, a game, and a run walk. I am still away from a five ...

Oct 09, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week: October 9, 2026

Hey, folks, no post this week as my work schedule has been pretty heavily disrupted and other tasks had to come first. Patrons will already know this background, but over the summer, we had a water...

Oct 09, 2026 from GadgeteerZA

You can now tell telemarkers to get lost officially in South Africa

“South Africans can register blocks against direct marketers on the government’s new National Opt-Out Registry now – not from May 2027, as the National Consumer Commission’s (NCC’s) own launch stat...

Oct 09, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

In the Online Age, PRC Foreign Intelligence Evolves

Matt Brazil

Oct 09, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Dealing with the Uncles

So Khosrow II had regained his throne and the usurper Bahram Chobin had fled and been killed. Order was restored in the Iranian Empire. Khosrow had originally be put on the throne when his two uncl...

Oct 09, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual

Trump und Folter

Die USA klagen Maduro wegen Folter an. Warum? Ich dachte, Trump sei pro Folter.

Oct 09, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Webb Telescope Finds Water Clouds on a Jupiter-Sized World Seven Light-Years Away

About 7.4 light-years from the Sun, a dim ball of gas about as wide as Jupiter drifts through space with no star to warm it. Jupiter is large enough to fit some 11 Earths side by side. (A light-yea...