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Careful with the Green Salsa, Says Federal Judge

"The green salsa, which Mr. Manz admitted he never sampled, smelled, or asked an employee regarding the contents before consuming, is the source of this litigation."

Daily News Stuff 16 March 2026

Lunchables Edition Top Story The Big Three memory makers are publicly saying they expect the AI bubble to pop - or at least fizzle - by 2028, which is why they're slow-walking expansion plans in th...

Not a Firefox Fork! Kagi's Orion Browser Arrives on Linux as a Public Beta

The Flatpak-only build brings basic browsing but extensions and Kagi Sync aren't ready yet.

Major Tokyo subway line shut down by in-train mobile battery fire

Device for charging on-the-go brings subway to a stop in latest mobile battery fire. The Tokyo Metro’s Hanzomon subway line is pretty handy for getting around the city. Running more or less diagona...

The Forgotten Time When Crusader Knights Controlled the Caribbean: The Strange 14-Year Experiment of the Order of Malta

If there is something that characterizes the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, it is having had to wander from place to place in search of a fixed site where it could settle, a process during which...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-16-26

I was inconsistent in publishing daily Pook-Emu Bee links last week. But I am on the ball this week. If you enjoy the (almost) daily links and commentary, you can also follow via feed. Links from a...

Apple at 50 and Me at 51 - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #127

In less than half a month, Apple will celebrate its 50th birthday. However, because of Apple's image as a constant trendsetter, many people don't realize that it is now a veritable elder statesman ...

Fat Boy - Round 2

Back in 2024 I went through the process of losing weight, and was fairly successful. I went from ~111kg (244lbs) to ~103kg (226lbs). My target was 100kg (220lbs), so I got very close. But then, in ...

11 Quick Tips on How to Stop Mental Overload and Anxiety

There is nothing more dangerous than unrecognized mental overload, and here is why. It’s 10 p.m., and your brain feels like a browser with 47 tabs open — deadlines, emails, that awkward conversatio...

Heraclius of Jerusalem

When King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem as worried about finding a husband for his sister who could run the kingdom, he sent Heraclius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, on a quest to find a suitable candidate...

Saints of Jacksonville: A History of the Mormon Church

Andrew Nicholas shares the deep history of the Latter-day Saints in Jacksonville. - The story of how Latter-day Saints came to Florida first began in the Panhandle, gradually spreading eastward in ...

IRC Log: Standup 2

The team attempts another text-based standup, this time with management present. It goes significantly worse than the first one.

How To Move Saved Game Data From PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5

Summary Although the PlayStation 5 has been out for a while. I’m usually pretty slow to join the party on the latest and greatest consoles. This note discusses moving some save data from the PlaySt...

The last mile is part of the writing

A draft is not done when the argument exists in private. It is done when titles, descriptions, links, formatting, metadata, and final checks have made it publishable.

Rotational Gravity

Weekly Robotics #352

Lately, I've been playing HARD with LLMs for robotics-related coding. The pace of development of these tools is crazy. I feel like if I'm not paying attention for two weeks, it becomes hard to catc...

AI Costs Human Lawyer His Job… Just Not The Way The Tech People Expected — See Generally

AI-Brained AUSA Falls On His Sword... I Wonder If That Was Also ChatGPT's Advice: Federal prosecutor who filed AI-hallucinations -- and then made misleading statements about how they got there -- r...

Shorely You Jest

Read Shorely You Jest Guest: "Why is a five-star resort allowing its private beach to have so much sand! It gets everywhere! I can't walk on the beach without it getting in my shoes!" Read Shorely ...

Lexxual Debauchery: Season 3

After their struggles against His Divine Shadow and Mantrid led to the destruction of the entire Light Universe, the crew of the Lexx have fled to the other universe – the Dark Zone. Almost immedia...

Weeknotes 2026-03-15

This week's entry coming in just a little bit late because I was busy yesterday. The World The Iran conflict enters its third week. Trump claims it will be over soon but I am skeptical. Everyone is...