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An Automated Water Tank Controller

[Jumpor] lives in a part of India where the water infrastructure is a little frustrating to use. Water gets delivered to underground tanks outside of homes, and must then be …read more

This Pizza Party Is Going To Hit A Little Different

Read This Pizza Party Is Going To Hit A Little Different Fancy Customer: "I'm very sorry to pull you away from your work, I just need a moment of your time. How much notice would you need for eight...

Daily News Stuff 2 August 2026

Omniglot Edition Top Story Microsoft has vowed to make Windows 11 actually work in 8GB of RAM, which is timely given that the company is shipping Windows PCs with 8GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware) Befor...

We tried Starbucks Japan’s new coffee for people who don’t drink coffee

Does the new “Clear Coffee” have what it takes to bring a non-coffee drinker into the fold? For many coffee drinkers, a cup of joe is a daily ritual – skip that morning cup and something just feels...

Marketing for Makers

Technological Progress in ‘Time War’ With the West

Ryan Wu

The Merciless Parliament, Part 2

After the Merciless Parliament in 1388 had eliminated the five specific advisors to Richard II that they considered the most corrupt, the Lords Appellant decided to sweep through the rest of the ad...

Today in Supreme Court History: August 2, 1923

8/2/1923: President Calvin Coolidge's Inauguration. He would appoint Justice Harlan Fiske Stone to the Supreme Court.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 2, 1923 appeared first on Rea...

Archaeologists Detect Stones That May Have Human Shapes Beneath the Enormous Neolithic Mounds of Coëby in Brittany

In the heart of the granite massif of the Landes de Lanvaux, in the French department of Morbihan, lies the Neolithic cemetery of Coëby, discovered in 1986. This site, preserved for centuries by th...

Weeknotes 2026-08-02

It's August! Somehow the year is already 2/3rds over. The World Gaza: Huh, Hamas has reportedly agreed to disarmement. Let's see if that goes anywhere. Iran: On again, off again, maybe there's talk...

Fixing Failed KOReader OTA Update on PocketBook

I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do an OTA update of KOReader, but it failed in both cases (locked up after hitting ...

Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors

Stewy is a very interesting robot, with some slightly odd kinematics. Its head is a Stewart platform, which is a common-enough 6-DOF actuated plate normally used with a fixed base. …read more

Taxing Faxing, Part 45

Read Taxing Faxing, Part 45 I'm a tax accountant. Client: "Why am I paying so much tax?!" Me: "Well, someone has to pay for the schools and roads." Read Taxing Faxing, Part 45

Federal Court Rules Against Rhode Island Town's Use of Eminent Domain for NIMBY Purposes

The local government sought to use eminent domain to block a housing project local NIMBYs objected to.

August Novel 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCI

Leafintro Welcome to the 291st 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 writ...

Just Waiting Around

Kicking rocks, it feels like.

Pelgrims Path part 05

Hiked part 5/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 18.82 kilometres from Reeuwijk to Haastrecht. You walk right through the Reeuwijkse Plassen along the narrow lanes that separate the lakes. In 1657 four felled...

Air-conditioned dress shirts arrive in Japan to save working professionals from sweltering heat

These dress shirts are sure to have fans. If you need business attire in Japan, Yofuku no Aoyama is pretty much always a safe choice. They may not have the trendiest fashions from brand-name design...

📝 2026-08-01 15:28: Our new addition to the family, Nelly, has arrived and she's causing havoc already. 🤣

Our new addition to the family, Nelly, has arrived and she's causing havoc already. 🤣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or le...

Daily News Stuff 1 August 2026

Port Elizabeth Edition Top Story VC-backed startups commit more fraud and researchers think they know why. (Tech Crunch) Yes, it's exactly the reason you immediately thought of. Congratulations, yo...