Sep 21, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 21 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Sep 19, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com A Box Office Bomb Read A Box Office Bomb Kevin: "Thanks! It was actually really fun!" Me: "Fun?" Kevin: "Yeah! Everyone was so happy when I told them they could go in for free!" Me: "Everyone?" Read A Box Office Bomb
Sep 19, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 19 September 2026 Fluorine Bleach Edition Top Story The first new cat species to be identified in more than a century, leopardus tilcayo, has been, uh, identified. (Wikipedia) Of course the people who live in that p...
Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday Teaching a Robot Hand to Walk Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic hand was released in time for Halloween. Designed by researchers from ETH Zurich...
Sep 19, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- Gang of angry monkeys surrounds and attacks Japanese man in hot spring town Morning walk interrupted by notorious Troop T1. The town of Yugawara, in Kanagawa Prefecture, seems like it should be a very tranquil place. A seaside hot spring town, with baths and inns dotting t...
Sep 19, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy When You're in a College Electrical Circuits Lab, Better Follow the Teacher's Instructions From Soliz v. Alamo Colleges Dist., decided by Judge David Ezra (W.D. Tex.) on Sept. 16: Plaintiff Joseph Soliz, who… The post When You're in a College Electrical Circuits Lab, Better Follow the Te...
Sep 19, 2026 from It's FOSS Elecrow CrowPanel Advanced HMI Display Review: A Tinkerer's Touchscreen A big touchscreen board for makers who want a physical control panel for their homelab, if you don't mind doing the work yourself.
Sep 19, 2026 from Daily Medieval Belisarius Returns to Italy The Gothic Wars (535 - 554) under Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I were created to reunify the Western Roman Empire with the Eastern. They were successful, thanks to the strategies and (in one cas...
Sep 19, 2026 from Kev Quirk Amelia the Chicken We lost our favourite chicken last night. I know, just a chicken, right? Big deal. It's not like we lost a pet. But that's the thing, Amelia was more than just a chicken. She was a pet. She was ver...
Sep 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in two states simultaneously — spinning left and right at the same time, for ...
Sep 19, 2026 from The Scholar's Stage The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated. I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have underestimated—vastly underestimated—the chance that progress in machine intelligen...
Sep 19, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game and also one of the most popular strategy games currently...
Sep 19, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Deeper Roots The funny thing about trees is that the more they spread their leaves, the deeper their roots seep. I came up with that line last night, and I had to do a cliché-check to see if anyone had already ...
Sep 18, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State Residents Violates Second Amendment So held Elite Precision Customs L.L.C. v. BATFE, decided today by Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, joined by Kurt Engelhardt;… The post Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State Residents Violat...
Sep 18, 2026 from Above the Law Cravath’s Latest Hire Comes With A Les Moonves-Shaped Asterisk — See Also Cravath Says Mike Aiello Shares Its 'Values.' About That: Not where I would have gone with the press release, but OK. The G In GPT Stands For Geaux: LSU's football coach used ChatGPT for legal advi...
Sep 18, 2026 from Hackaday Sony’s First Computer In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted a piece of the action. This led to, among other …read more
Sep 18, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Getting Roasted At The Luau Read Getting Roasted At The Luau Guest: *Still shouting.* "What the h*** is Kalua pig!" Me: "It's the pork that's been slow roasting in the underground oven. It's a traditional part of—" Guest: "—I...
Sep 18, 2026 from Kev Quirk A day is short, a life is long A day is short, a life is longby Kevin WammerKevin talks about some of the stuff he's figured out in his life now that he's turned 35.Read post ➡ Really enjoyed this post because it's honest, level...
Sep 18, 2026 from Palladium Don’t Count Out the Country House The English country estate bound each generation to the land and to relationships that endured for centuries, sculpting a worthy elite. Scrapping them for bureaucracy might prove a costly mistake. ...
Sep 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Ein Hund Fällt mir was an dem Hund auf? *roll* …es ist ein Hund.