Oct 05, 2026 from Hackaday How to Grow a Giant Crystal from Copper Sulfate Copper sulfate crystals are probably among one of the prettiest crystals you can grow at home, with even just a simple setup with some copper scrap and vinegar already capable …read more
Oct 05, 2026 from Refereeing and Reflection Supplement Supplemental! (Ravens, Foxes, and Fish – Chaosium Animal People Special) Time for another round-up of RPG supplements I’ve been reading lately. This time, it’s a bunch of Chaosium supplements for various Basic Roleplaying-powered RPGs. There’s an extra linking factor he...
Oct 05, 2026 from Above the Law Sam Alito Rings In The New Term By Telling Fox News He Knows Who Leaked Dobbs About that leak... The post Sam Alito Rings In The New Term By Telling Fox News He Knows Who Leaked Dobbs appeared first on Above the Law.
Oct 05, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com That’s Some Hardwood Read That’s Some Hardwood Customer: "It doesn't fit in my car!" Me: "We recommend you measure the furniture first before buying it to make sure it can fit in your vehicle." Customer: "I did, and it...
Oct 05, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net Screen Studio 4.0 adds transcript editing, a camera cutout tool, and project sharing beta The popular screen recorder and video editor for Mac, Screen Studio, has launched version 4.0 with transcript based editing, new camera tools, sharper zooms, and faster exports. Users can now edit ...
Oct 05, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy My New Lawfare Article on Why "The President Doesn't Have Unlimited Power to Impose Import Bans" Many of the same constitutional and other constraints apply as with tariffs.
Oct 05, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Sendai Bank gifts babies their weight at birth in money upon opening a new bank account Having a big baby may be decidedly not fun for the mother, the baby’s first bank account will positively rejoice! Beginning on October 1, babies in Miyagi Prefecture can receive celebratory money f...
Oct 05, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 5 October 2026 Dragonspit Edition Top Story Sam Altman says you have to accept some bad with the bad when it comes to AI. (Politico) I'm sure he does. Oh, forgot to mention: Daylight saving time has kicked in her...
Oct 05, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition 15 Clay Tablets From Ur Reveal Unknown Places, an Ancient Princess Whose Farm Ran on Its Own Rules, and a Village Inhabited by Prisoners of War Each of these tablets fits in the palm of a hand. The smallest measures a little over 3 centimetres (1.3 inches) across and the largest 11.5 (4.5 inches), and nearly all of them deal with the least...
Oct 05, 2026 from LifeDev.net How Do You Actually Do Deep Work? 7 Rules for Focus in a Distracted World Deep work is the skill everyone praises, few practice, and almost nobody was ever taught. The term, coined by computer science professor Cal Newport, describes focused, undistracted work on cogniti...
Oct 05, 2026 from It's FOSS Siemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already Live Another reminder of why open source saves software from being lost forever.
Oct 05, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🗨️ It’s as if the primary question of this generation is, “Am I doing it right?” From Mike Posner’s weekly newsletter:
Oct 05, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Swift Server Has Another Google - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #156 Last week, Google Cloud introduced a Swift SDK for server-side development. It covers more than a hundred Google Cloud services, including Cloud Storage, IAM, Secret Manager, and AI, while providin...
Oct 05, 2026 from Daily Medieval The End of Mazdak Two days ago I promised you a grisly end to Mazdak and his followers. Yesterday was the set-up: Iranian Emperor Kavad tried to be tolerant of Mazdak, a priest who preached a doctrine that was not i...
Oct 05, 2026 from Jordi Villar 2026W39 Obituary for a Quiet Life — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER — The idea I keep turning over is that contentment with a small life is actually subversive, a quiet refusal of the American reflex to keep climbin...
Oct 04, 2026 from Hackaday Hackaday Links: October 3, 2026 If you’re interested in aerospace, there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard the rumor that NASA is trying to get its SR-71 flying again. Or at the very least, they are …read more
Oct 04, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Donut Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out Read Donut Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out Customer: "So, you're not gonna sell those last few donuts." Me: "We close in five minutes, so not looking likely." Customer: "So, I can have them?" M...
Oct 04, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #379 Weekly Robotics 379: Atlas has new hands, lessons learned from building 30,000 robot dogs, how to build a plane in 30 days, evaluating LiDAR performance, Figure robots going out in flames, and more!
Oct 04, 2026 from Above the Law Missouri’s Terrible Week — See Generally Three Time Losers: The Supreme Court shut down the third attempt to impose Missouri's gerrymandered map for this election in direct violation of applicable law. Along the way, the Court directed si...
