May 02, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 2 May 2026 Very Bad Word Edition Top Story Just a five days ago I wrote this: It's been a while since we've had a big tech news story. No disasters, no miracles. Things haven't suddenly gotten better - or at ...
May 02, 2026 from Hackaday Debugging a Stopped Foucault Pendulum’s Electronics After the Foucault pendulum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science stopped working a while back after maintenance on the building, workers set out to determine what was wrong with …read more
May 02, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Viral tweet suggests Japanese convenience store ripping off customers with donuts, so we investigate Photo shows Family Mart chocolate donut looking nothing like its packaging, but was that by design? It’d be an exaggeration to say that Japan’s love affair with its convenience stores is over, but ...
May 02, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Customer Orders Are Getting Dicey Read Customer Orders Are Getting Dicey Customer: "Excuse me, I ordered this salad, and my carrots are shredded." Me: "Yes, sir, that's how the carrots are served on this dish." Customer: "I would l...
May 01, 2026 from Above the Law Trump Wants Hakeem Jeffries To Pull A Sotomayor — See Also He's Being Told To Apologize For Noticing The Case That Gutted Voting Rights: Very rude of him to be honest, frankly. Habba Doubles Down On The 86 Gambit On The View: The crowd didn't love her perf...
May 01, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Giving Powder To The People Read Giving Powder To The People Customer: "Uh… are you trying to kill me?!" Me: "Pardon me, ma'am?" Customer: "I'm diabetic! I can't have sugar! Why did you drown my crepe in powdered sugar?!" Rea...
May 01, 2026 from Hackaday Magnetic Induction Heats Water Producing hot water off-grid is a surprisingly energy-intensive activity, and although it looks simple on its surface it can get quite complicated especially when used in large scale for something ...
May 01, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy 5th Circuit Panel Blocks 2023 Mifepristone Telemedicine Approval This case will go to the Supreme Court very quickly.
May 01, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 1 May 2026 Yay Edition Top Story CPanel, a web hosting software suite used by 70 million sites worldwide, had a security hole big enough to drive a Kenworth through without needing to check for clearance. (Bl...
May 01, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Memories – Recording Mario Kart: Double Dash on VHS An article on Hackaday reminds me of my summer vacation 2005 project to record a perfect Mario Kart; Double Dash All Cup Tour run on VHS.
May 01, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-01-26 We welcome May with a new edition of the daily Pook-Emu Bee links (after a spotty week). It looks nice outside my window… 1. Stripe introduces Link, a digital wallet that autonomous AI agents can u...
May 01, 2026 from Kev Quirk Thoughts on Leaving GitHub I've read a few posts about people leaving GitHub recently, and following my short note to the Fediverse a number of people have piped up saying they're not fans of GitHub, either. From the reading...
May 01, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Shinto shrine will bless your bike helmet and give you a sacred bike helmet stamp Pray to get ahead or to keep your head. Bicycle helmets have really taken off recently. In the months leading up to Japan’s stricter cycling violation penalties, I noticed many more people around m...
May 01, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part III: Generals, Warlords and Vassals This is the third part (I, II) of our series looking at how Carthage’s complex, multipart armies were raised and constituted. Last time, we looked at the backbone of Carthage’s armies: North Africa...
May 01, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria 1st May 2026, after the village folds itself away 1st May, 2026. 08:10 PM.Maureen has posted the final housekeeping note. Which means it is official now. April has been packed into boxes, the prompts have been swept from the floor, the links are s...
May 01, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net ElevenLabs launches ElevenMusic, a new AI music generation platform ElevenLabs has just introduced ElevenMusic, its new AI music platform for streaming, creating, remixing, and sharing AI-generated songs. Some may remember that the company announced a similarly nam...
May 01, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 18/2026 It’s been a busy week, both at work and at home. I think the heat also made the week much more tiring, but thankfully, it rained a bit yesterday. Hopefully we will get more rains. I spent a bit of ...
May 01, 2026 from Daily Medieval The Mad Parliament King Henry III had spent lavishly on many things, including trying to fund a war to gain the Kingdom of Sicily for his younger son Edmund. He was confronted by a number of barons who would only agr...
May 01, 2026 from The Jaxson Sights and Scenes: Pearl Square Construction Construction sights and scenes from a recent April 2026 walk through downtown Jacksonville's rapidly rising Pearl Square District. - About Pearl Square The Pearl Square District two million square ...
