May 23, 2026 from Daily Medieval A Noble End The Archbishop of Canterbury, Alfheah (also Alphege, was captured during an invasion of Vikings in 1011. Eadric Streona was supposedly sent to negotiate. Unfortunately, Eadric might not have been t...
May 23, 2026 from Jordi Villar The Algorithm Behind Shazam I never really thought about how Shazam works. You hold your phone up, it tells you the song, you move on. Then I read this article by Per Thirtysix and got curious enough to dig in. What I found s...
May 23, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition The Romans Recycled Emperor Statues: A Study Reveals How and Why the Faces of Power Were Recarved In ancient Rome, statues of emperors were not immutable. They could change faces. A ruler who had fallen from favor would see his features chiseled away to make room for the image of his successor,...
May 23, 2026 from The Autodidacts 20 years of Linux and I finally started using job control And it’s amazing
May 23, 2026 from Roy Tang How I Use My Notes App Previously: Note-taking / Todo Workflow Trying to go through my notes app today (I use SimpleNote) to clean out old notes, as I find I need to do occasionally. I typically have many pinned notes th...
May 23, 2026 from It's FOSS Firefox Just Saved Us All from Spammy Online PDF Tools Firefox's PDF viewer just got a feature that online tools have been charging for.
May 23, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Choosing How to Build and Host a Blog My thoughts on various factors to consider in deciding how to build and host a blog or writing website.
May 23, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Open Skies You know, writing is a lot better at ending wars than starting them. I think about great treaties, speeches, and art that takes us out of the horrors we can find ourselves taking part in—whether th...
May 22, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy FBI Director Kash Patel's Girlfriend's Defamation Suit Over Allegations She Was Israeli Spy Can Go Forward From Judge David Alan Ezra (W.D. Tex.) today in Wilkins v. Seraphin: This case arises from allegedly defamatory statements made… The post FBI Director Kash Patel's Girlfriend's Defamation Suit Over...
May 22, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com For Whom The Bell Trolls Read For Whom The Bell Trolls The counter at my store has a sign stating to ring the bell once for assistance. A customer walks around the counter and starts yelling to the universe: Customer: "Any...
May 22, 2026 from Hackaday Low Head Turbine Generates Plenty of Power Engineering design makes all kinds of tradeoffs. Power trades off with torque, strength trades off with weight, and cost can trade off with quality. For designing a hydroelectric turbine, one …read...
May 22, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part V: How a Carthaginian Army Fights This is the fifth and last part of our series (I, II, III, IV, V) looking at how Carthaginian armies were raised and constituted. Over the last four parts, we’ve looked at the larger components of ...
May 22, 2026 from Improve Something Today Open space technology, principle 4: “When it is over, it is over” Appreciating circles that have been opened but not closed.
May 22, 2026 from GadgeteerZA 8 LEGO 3D printing projects to build this weekend “LEGO and 3D printing may seem like a perfect combination, but there’s more to it than first meets the eye. While you can 3D print LEGO blocks, tight tolerances can produce disappointing results if...
May 22, 2026 from Above the Law Smiling Through The Pain — See Also Paul, Weiss Loses Two More Litigation Partners: They insist everything is still alright. Sure, Just Let AI Do The Hiring Now I Guess: Revolut's "disruptive" tech adoption is getting ridiculed. Expe...
May 22, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 22 May 2026 Oof Edition Top Story Got up early to get something fixed at worked - looked like a two hour job. By the end of the day it had clearly turned into a two day job, so that was fun. Google is bringing...
May 22, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: endlich feiern Therith fängt schneller mit dem Feiern an, als Mavas schauen kann.
May 22, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation Türkiye and Armenia Initiate Official Bilateral Trade Mamie Powers
May 22, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 21/2026 I was in Chennai for the first half of the week. I couldn’t get a confirmed 1st or 2nd class train ticket. So I had to fly from Kochi. It’s such a waste of time and money. Chennai is hot, hotter th...
May 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-22-26 I was too busy yesterday to put together my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. I am busy today as well, but not too busy to take a link break. Article Links 1. Six search engines worth trying now that Googl...
