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Weekend drive to Camden

We just wanted to drive around NSW’s countryside and maybe visit a farm. Camden came up in the search, and the Airbnb there looked nice, and hence we settled on it. It was also perfect fir for the ...

Using Marginalia Search’s Backlink Search

Marginalia Search may well be the best open source independent search engine on the web. Here, we look at how it can be used to find backlinks to indexed domains.

The Taieri River Tunnel

The Taieri River diverted through the tunnel. The Taieri River starts in the Lammerlaw Range, flows north through the Maniototo Plain, before taking a sharp turn south down the Strath Taieri and Ta...

When to split one idea into two posts

Some drafts do not need harder revision. They are carrying two different jobs, and the honest move is to notice when splitting will restore sequence, pressure, and a real center of gravity.

Overton

No Enemies

I, like many Christians, have been having a tough time loving my enemies. I mean this not just in relation to my car crash earlier this week, but in most facets of life. The real essence of the law...

Laws/Rules Made Up to Apply to Israel

Over on X, @Optimist_Gaza challenged readers to list five examples of supposed international law Israel's critics invented to apply to… The post Laws/Rules Made Up to Apply to Israel appeared first...

Giving Them Something To Chew On

Read Giving Them Something To Chew On I used to be a kitchen manager at a restaurant. A server came up to the kitchen to tell us that a customer had an allergy to onions to justify a drastic and un...

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Magic Of The Scroll-Like Phone Which Wast Not!

When LG left the smartphone market, quite a number of strange devices were left behind. While some, like the Wing, made it to consumers, others did not. The strangest of …read more

Yale Law Has Fallen — See Also

Not Very Far, But It Still Counts!: Read the newest law school rankings here. How Much Do Rankings Actually Matter Though?: Legal academia shares their thoughts. Losing And Winning Go Hand In Hand:...

Orbán’s Rule Could End Despite Russian Interference

Péter Fazekas

April’s Pink Moon

The Moon has been in the news lately thanks to the Artemis II Mission. I shared a Supermoon fact back in December and “blood Moon” news in the March 1, 2026 Pook-Emu Bee. While checking the local w...

Obfuscating My Contact Email

I stumbled across this great post by Spencer Mortensen yesterday, which tested different email obfuscation techniques against real spambots to see which ones actually work. It's a fascinating read,...

What Makes a Slot Game Easy to Understand From the First Spin

When you open a slot game, you want one thing—to understand it immediately. You do not want to read the rules or guess the meaning of the symbols, just to spin the reels and enjoy the game. There a...

Spotify now lets users create podcast playlists and get recommendations using AI

Spotify is expanding its AI powered Prompted Playlist feature beyond music to include podcasts, while also making it available in more countries. The feature first launched for music earlier last y...

Katzensilhouette

Ich möchte ein neues Favicon. Aber ein Versuch, eine Silhouette unseres verstorbenen Katers dafür zu verwenden, hat mich nicht zufriedengestellt.

Daily News Stuff 7 April 2026

The Command Line Cometh Edition Top Story A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the leaked version of Claude Code. (Adversa) If you've used Claude Code, you've noticed that it lo...

The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Abolition of Man. It began as three lectures in 1943. Lewis looks at a school textbook that teaches children to dismiss emotions as mere feelings. He calls t...

Deer that appeared in downtown Osaka gets a new home, a new name, and a lot of snacks[Video]

Likely wanderer from Nara Park won’t be going back, but has a new place to live in a hot spring town. Both the business and academic year start in spring in Japan, so right now is what’s known as t...

Sabbatical #09: Dunedin

A travel journal from my visit to Dunedin, New Zealand.