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Studio Ghibli celebrates the magic of movie theaters with short video, Hayao Miyazaki illustration

Familiar voice provides narration for reminder that there’s something special about the in-theater experience. Studio Ghibli was one of the last anime studios to allow for digital distribution of t...

Veluwe Wander Trail part 07

Hiked part 7/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.1 kilometres from Garderen to Putten centrum. The Speulder and Sprielderbos still partly consists of the old, communally managed malebos. The forest b...

Weekly Notes 15/2026

I am back in Bengaluru. Slept and rested a bit. I watched One Battle After Another on the way to Sydney and Naked Gun 2 on the way back. I really liked how One Battle After Another is told, DiCapri...

Hidden patterns discovered in the construction of hundreds of megalithic monuments on the northern border between Spain and Portugal

High in the mountains that separate northern Portugal and Galicia, dozens of stone mounds have stood silently over the landscape for more than 6,000 years. They are the remains of one of the highes...

I've Completed 100 Days To Offload (Again)

I just published my motorbike servicing rant and went over to my Pure Blog Dashboard to take a look at some stats, when I noticed this: 101 posts in the last year; which means I've complete 100 Day...

Maria's Claim

Maria of Antioch had a stronger claim to the throne of Jerusalem in 1268 than the man who was crowned.Born c.1220, she was a granddaughter of Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem. After the death of Conra...

Looking for Focus Training Exercises? Discover 7 Simple Habits That Boost Mental Clarity

Ready for some focus training exercises? You sit down to work. Within ten minutes, you have checked your phone twice, opened a new browser tab for no clear reason, and lost the thread of what you w...

Experts Indicate Evolving Safeguards for Early Warning Counterstrike Posture

Alex Lewis Richter & Makena Tom

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 10] - What the emptied cup says

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 10]Day Ten One-third of the way through Na/GloPoWriMo already?! I guess the days go by fast when you spend them writing poems. Our featured participant for the day is Poems by...

Uganda, Israel, and Iran in 2026 vs 1976

Relations between Uganda and Israel were very "strained" in 1976. 2026 X posts from Ugandan Defense Minister Muhoozi Kainerugaba would have been hard to explain 50 years ago...

Bread Alone

It's Holy Friday, and I intend on going to my parish's service tonight. One of the subdeacons was saying that it's supposed to have some of the most beautiful music the church sings all year, so I'...

My Next Fitness Goal - Carry my Wife

Most people’s health goals involve some sort of number. Weigh less than this number. Get cholesterol under that number. Lift more weight. Run this far under that time.

A small publication needs an operating model, not just good posts

A small publication becomes real work before it looks large. Once the archive has real weight, somebody has to keep it legible, connected, and cheap enough to maintain.

Ne rien avoir à penser

Ne rien avoir à penser Se faire prendre pour des crétins parce que ça fonctionne Google l’annonce : il y a plus de personnes dans le monde avec un smartphone Android que de personnes qui ont accès ...

Lightning

Lawyers Are Bad At Math, But Come On — See Also

Turns Out You Can Squeeze Too Much Out Of A Day: Australian lawyer billed over 31 hours for a day of work. The Best Firms In The City That Never Sleeps: See the best of the Big Apple! 'Super Drunk'...

I’m Afraud Not

Read I’m Afraud Not Lady: "My workplace is covering the cost of my cell phone purchase, up to 8,000 NOK (approx. $800), so I need a receipt to show them." Me: "I'm happy to help you find that. May ...

[Kerry Wong] Finds SMD Test Clips

One of the many problems you run into when you work with SMD parts is trying to probe the little tiny pins. While we usually watch [Kerry Wong’s] videos for …read more

Amazon introduces S3 Files to bridge AWS compute and S3 with native file system access

Amazon has unveiled Amazon S3 Files, a new file system that enables AWS compute resources to access Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets directly as file systems. This launch removes the prev...

Non-Meta Smartglasses and my Pet Issues

Some time ago, I saved a link to a November 12, 2025 report in Wired titled Hate Meta? Even Realities Is Making the Smart Glasses You Want. This is a flawed headline. It presupposes that the main r...