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Another ANOTHER New Lick of Paint

So it turns out I didn't like the mustard yellow and steel blue design that I created a couple weeks ago. It just didn't sit well with me, and if I look back over my design history the designs that...

Daily News Stuff 20 March 2026

Dove Grey Afternoon Edition Top Story Bluesky, one-time social network and latterly psych ward for those who can't cope with the harsh truths dished out daily by CNN and whatever MSNBC is called to...

Mister Donut wows matcha lovers in Japan with new Dora Matcha doughnuts

Like a sweet fusion between doughnuts and dorayaki pancakes, this is an Uji matcha experience you need to try while in Japan. Matcha lovers will want to mark their calendars for 25 March this year,...

The Hospitallers Change

Founded originally to care for the sick and poor in Jerusalem, there were new statutes for the Hospitallers in March 1182 under the leadership of their grandmaster, Roger de Moulins. These new stat...

Doctor Who: Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 1

The Companion Chronicles concept, which has a companion actor mostly narrating a story audiobook style with another actor in a “second voice” role to add aspects of audio drama to the production, w...

Systemd’s New Feature Brings Age Verification Option to Linux

The optional birthDate field gives other projects a standardized data source for age verification compliance.

Neanderthals Used Birch Tar as an Antibiotic

An international study led by the University of Cologne has shown that birch tar, a material traditionally associated with tool-making by Neanderthals, possesses antibacterial properties that could...

The Social Smolnet

The Social Smolnet It might have been an email thread. Or a lobste.rs comment. It was a discussion about yet another attempt at a new decentralized social protocol. And we reached the conclusion th...

Star Formation

80 TB of RAIDZ Storage

4x 30TB Seagate Hard Drives Over the course of my life, hard drives have continued to get denser as far as their data capacity. Back when I was traveling for years, I could comfortably put most of ...

Interactive Entertainment

Sometimes in between writing these entries, a certain set of thoughts will come about. I'll think through the ideas and say to myself, "That would make a good Cogito entry," but then I'll end up si...

Putin Furthers Civil Society Facade as Tool of Control

Richard Arnold

It Isn’t March Madness Without A Bracket! — See Also

Which Trump Administration Lawyers Should Lose Their License The Hardest?: Here's your explanation on the regions. And Here's Where You Cast Your Vote!: Who should be the biggest loser in the Giuli...

The Spirit Of The Law

Read The Spirit Of The Law Customer: *Yanking on the door handle, shouting through the glass.* "Hey! The door is stuck!" Me: "It's not stuck, it's locked! We're closed on holidays!" Customer: "C'mo...

Carroll Street Bridge Proposals

The Carroll Street Bridge is the second bridge crossing Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, situated between the Union Street and Third Street Bridges. It is the most interesting of the Gowanus Canal Bridges...

In Memoriam: John J. Park, Jr.

I am deeply saddened by the loss of my friend and colleague, Jack Park. I pass along this remembrance from… The post In Memoriam: John J. Park, Jr. appeared first on Reason.com.

Daily News Stuff 19 March 2026

Antibipartisanarianism Edtion Top Story A bipartisan gaggle of US senators is looking at blowing up DMCA Section 230, the law that makes modern social networks - and to a certain degree, blogs and ...

This Japanese vending machine doesn’t sell drinks, but you can buy drinks through it

There’s nothing for sale inside the machine, but Okinawan spirits and delicious deserts are waiting on the other side. Recently, we were walking down the street in the city of Ishigaki in Okinawa P...

Excavations in ancient Roman Saepinum uncover a domus with advanced hydraulic technology and a Byzantine treasure

A new phase of archaeological research carried out between 2023 and 2025 at the site of Altilia (central-southern Italy), where the ancient Saepinum is located, is providing a more complex and dyna...

Sprezzatura

Sprezzatura. Say it out loud. Spreh-za-TOO-rah. Let it sit in your mouth for a second. Sounds like something you'd want to eat, or drink, or steal. By the time you get to that last syllable your ha...