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Mar 28, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 28 March 2026

Stinky Sty Rails Edition Top Story Windows crashes three times as often as MacOS. (TechSpot) MacOS is that bad, huh? Some glitches with the sites aside, this server has been running nonstop for two...

Mar 28, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A warrior of the steppes in 5th-century Hispania: the first representation of an Alan horseman in the Iberian Peninsula during the fall of the Roman Empire

A team of archaeologists and historians has proposed a new reading of an enigmatic slate found in Salamanca that could change the understanding of the presence of nomadic peoples in the Iberian Pen...

Mar 28, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

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Read I’m at a store where all the employees where distinctive red vests with white targets on the back and front. I’m standing in line to check out at the self-check and it’s incredibly busy. All o...

Mar 28, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Open Thread

What’s on your mind?

Mar 28, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Rumors say this is Japan’s very best McDonald’s branch, but what makes it special?[Taste test]

We head half-way across Japan and try what foodies say is the most delicious McDonald’s branch in the whole county. Among people who’ve tried both, there’s a strong sense that McDonald’s tastes bet...

Mar 28, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

AI Editing vs Editing AI

I came across Ben Werdmuller’s March 27 notable links of the week through Minifeed. One part of his commentary on an NBC article titled AI is changing the style and substance of human writing, stud...

Mar 27, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Gluten For Punishment

Read Gluten For Punishment Customer: "I'm gluten-free." Me: "Well, we have some bottles of gluten-free beer available." Customer: "But none on happy hour?" Read Gluten For Punishment

Mar 27, 2026 from Above the Law

Where The Head Goes The Body Follows — See Also

Midsize Firm Closes After Partners Leave: Taylor Duma closes for good this month. Is This It For Section 230?: Does the design/content distinction unfairly punish websites for their user's faults? ...

Mar 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Improve the RSS experience of your blog readers

Jatan, writing on his Journal J blog, offers good advice for webmasters who want to promote feed subscriptions for their projects. Having tried to pitch people on feeds in real life, I concur entir...

Mar 27, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Permissible ingredients, mandatory detention, and burrowing mites.

Mar 27, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week, March 27, 2026 (Society for Military History Annual Meeting)

Hey folks! Another gap week because, as mentioned last week, I am at the annual meeting for the Society for Military History happening in Arlington. That said, we actually did have a major post thi...

Mar 27, 2026 from Kev Quirk

Slowing Down on Pure Blog

I'm really proud of what Pure Blog has become, and honestly a little overwhelmed by the interest it's received since launch. The feedback and enthusiasm from the community has been genuinely lovely...

Mar 27, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 27 March 2026

Where The Winds Wind Edition Top Story Intel has been delivering interesting new products lately, with the Core 250K and Core 270K processors and the B70 Pro graphics card all providing solid perfo...

Mar 27, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Famous Tokyo cherry blossom spot installs view-blocking screens to fight overcrowding[Video]

Once an under-the-radar sakura spot, this neighborhood near Shibuya has become dangerously congested. Around 20 years ago, Nakameguro was still one of Tokyo’s less famous, if-you-know-you-know cher...

Mar 27, 2026 from Thejesh GN

Weekly Notes 13/2026

We had a long weekend due to Yugadhi and Eid. I didn’t do much. Mostly spent time at home, sleeping. I feel rested after a long time.

Mar 27, 2026 from It's FOSS

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Shows You There's Potential in the Stable Release

Canonical has opened up Resolute Raccoon for testing, and the beta shows promise.

Mar 27, 2026 from Jasco's Website

American English Spelling Mistakes

A very serious critique of American spellings of English words.

Mar 27, 2026 from Daily Medieval

The Siege of Acre, Part 5

So Conrad of Montferrat married Isabella of Jerusalem,. the rightful queen, and took her back to Tyre while the former king by marriage to Isabella's older sister Sibylla, Guy of Lusignan, refused ...

Mar 27, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

Scientists sequence the genome of a 110,000-year-old Neanderthal and discover that he lived in the same cave as another Neanderthal 10,000 years earlier

An international team of researchers, led from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Yale University, has succeeded in sequencing the high-quality genome of a Neanderthal who l...

Mar 27, 2026 from Your Local Epidemiologist

Your questions answered: How to use AI to optimize health

YLE webinar follow-up