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Books: Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #20)

Had trouble getting through this one, similar to Soul Music. It's not bad, but I find myself getting a bit tired of the whole "Death goes off on his extracurricular activities" schtick; it's entire...

What Are VCF Files and How to Open Them

Everything you need to know about VCF files — what they are, how to open them, how they work with contact sharing, and why they matter for digital business cards, address books, and contact managem...

When was the last time RAM was this expensive?

Memory has become insanely expensive over just the past few months. Micron cut production of Crucial, their consumer brand of memory, to focus on data center products at the end of 20251. This was ...

Satellite Pollution

The Wall

I might be hitting a wall. This project has helped me so much in learning how to write, develop routines, and instill a sense of stability in my life that I haven't felt in a long time. I am so gra...

Justices Barrett And Gorsuch Have Fallen Out Of Favor — See Also

Trump Nominateith, Trump Complaineth When He Doesn't Get His Way: Trump got big mad at his justices at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner. And Then There Were Eight: Which of th...

If The Shoe Fits…, Part 14

Read If The Shoe Fits…, Part 14 Customer: "This shoe is too small! You moron! I thought you said this is my size!" The cashier wordlessly takes the shoe, reaches inside, pulls out the paper filling...

Azerbaijan–Israel Relations Represent Middle Power Consolidation

Aybaniz Ismayilova

Thoughts On Concluding a One Ring Campaign

For the last year and a bit, I’ve been running the second edition of The One Ring for my Wednesday evening group. It’s been a lot of fun; we played through the Tales From the Lone-Lands campaign, w...

Max's Song

I'm in a Starbucks on a Tuesday afternoon, half-working, half-staring at a wall, when the opening synth line comes through the speakers. That pulsing, driving, unmistakable riff. Kate Bush's "Runni...

Lakritz die Katze

Eigentlich wollte ich etwas über Suchmaschinenindizierung schreiben… dann bin über eine Katzenseite gestolpert.

Axe, Enchanting Musk, and Muskrats

An article about the smell of Axe Body Spray reminded me of when a friend in high school described his post-Axe usage "enchanting musk" and that time he called someone a "muskrat who swims in rivers."

Fibonacci's Composed Fractions

Leonardo of Pisa (c1170-1241+), better known as Fibonacci, wrote Liber Abaci to introduce and advocate the adoption of “Indian figures” (Hindu-Arabic numerals) to Italy. The book explains how to pe...

Daily News Stuff 26 March 2026

Shutterbug Edition Top Story The long-running court case by Sony and the global music cartel against the internet and free people everywhere, represented here - somehow - by Cox Communications, has...

A Forgotten Mosaic Reveals the Only Known Image of a Venatrix, the Women Who Fought Beasts in the Roman Amphitheater

The image remained hidden for more than a century. A mosaic found in Reims (France) in 1860, destroyed during World War I and practically forgotten ever since, contains the only known visual repres...

Japanese politicians working to promote plastic model culture as a cultural asset

Govpla? I tried some plastic model kits as a kid, but they can be quite hard, requiring a great deal of patience and attention to detail. A couple of cruddy-looking biplanes and tanks later, I quic...

Ghost adds direct members-only podcast integration with Transistor.fm

Ghost has launched an official integration with Transistor.fm, enabling publishers to offer members-only podcasts with full automatic member syncing. The integration lets publishers define access f...

ClipCascade is an open-source lightweight utility that automatically syncs the clipboard across devices

This is a nice private option to sync across all your devices in real-time, and you can self-host you own sync device, rely on peer-to-peer between devices, or use their cloud sync. Traffic is end-...

Joke is on the Crunchyroll Hackers

Crunchyroll is investigating a potential hack which may have led to the exposure of customer email addresses. As readers of my anime writing on NLJ may know, I am a Crunchyroll subscriber (I have b...