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ISPP’s Expanding Operational Geography in Pakistan

Rahim Nasar

📝 2026-06-12 16:59

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CSS-Only Footnote Tooltips in Hugo

The blog now shows the text of a footnote when you hover over its citation number, so you can read a reference without jumping to the bottom of the page and back.1 It involves one Hugo partial and ...

2,000-Year-Old Grape Seeds in a 32-Meter-Deep Etruscan Well Reveal Surprises About Modern Wine

The history of wine in one of Italy’s most emblematic regions has just been rewritten thanks to genetics. An international team of scientists has sequenced the DNA of two-thousand-year-old grape se...

The Sun and Moon Allegory

Pope Innocent III was determined to assert papal authority over every area possible. He made sure that kings, although they had their "local" political power, were still under the spiritual authori...

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town, a relatively new website to make it easier to discover the indieweb of personal blogs. Sounds familiar? I run indieblog.page where the...

Mundanity

Your browser does not support the video tag. Last night while falling asleep, I was reflecting on the last ten years or so of my life, as one does. Looking back into the past, despite my attempts t...

Plate Flip

Boutique Firm Matches The Susman Scale — See Also

Holwell Shuster & Goldberg Pay Their Associates Handsomely: Associates are starting at $240,000! Where Are The Rest Of You!: Biglaw firms should be matching the new market salaries. Where are they?...

Afghan–Pakistani Conflict Not Stopping ‘Kabul Corridor’ Construction

Nargiza Umarova

Doctor Who: Into the Wilderness!

Eighteen months is too long to wait… but it looks like we’ll have to wait even longer than that. After previously announcing that Doctor Who would return with a Christmas special in 2026 – a bit ov...

Tipped To Be A Bad Day, Part 3

Read Tipped To Be A Bad Day, Part 3 Customer: "Can I use a discount?" Me: "Do you have a coupon or a gift card?" Customer: *Completely straight-faced without a hint of irony.* "No, no, I meant the ...

Repairing a Pair of Voodoo 2 GPUs for some SLI Action

Recently [Bits und Bolts] stumbled over a pair of Dragon 3000 branded 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards in his unfixed cards pile, and decided that the best course of action was …read more

Turning a Blog Into a Book

Wouter Groeneveld published a blog post on his blog, Brain Baking, titled The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book. I have thought about creating a book from the millions of words I have pu...

The Judicial Misconduct Complaint Against Judge Ryan Nelson: What Happens Next?

Another guest post from Professor Arthur Hellman.

Chrome moves to fully block MV2 extensions, effectively killing uBlock Origin workarounds

Google Chrome is now officially entering the final phase of removing Manifest V2 extension support, effectively wiping out the remaining uBlock Origin workarounds that kept the original MV2 version...

📝 2026-06-11 21:56

Dammit. My first attempt at a 2 colour print has failed - the filament keeps getting jammed from the AMS for some reason. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You ca...

Daily News Stuff 11 June 2026

Reality Bleed Edition Top Story Microsoft just released its biggest Patch Tuesday ever, fixing over 200 flows including three 0-day exploits. (Computer Weekly) Well, good. I guess that means things...

Anne Hathaway creates PR frenzy in Japan after mentioning Tottori in Devil Wears Prada interview

Casual mention elicits enthusiastic response from commonly overlooked tourist destination. Japan has become one of the world’s top tourist destinations, welcoming a record-breaking 42.7 million int...

The Epitaph of Seikilos, the oldest song preserved complete with musical notation and text

Although archaeologists have found written music texts older than the Greek Epitaph of Seikilos, such as the Hurrian Songs dating back to 1400 B.C., these are incomplete. Only one Hurrian song, des...