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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...

Did the Solicitor General Misrepresent Flournoy Article in Birthright Citizenship Oral Argument

It is often useful to consult the original source.

Questions along the way

The Periodic Table of Questions, ICA’s ORID, Liberating Structures’ W3, and more. How might we organize questions, and to what end?

Daily News Stuff 9 April 2026

Leapn't Year Edition Top Story Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to a MacOS time bomb. (Notebook Check) Not just MacBooks. Anything running MacOS:This bug means that after exactly 49 days,...

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 9] - what the windowsill plant knows

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 9]Day Nine Happy ninth day of National/Global Poetry Writing Month, all. We hope that you’re really getting into the groove of this whole poem-a-day thing! Our featured partic...

How to Find the Right Psychiatrist in Glendale for Anxiety, ADHD, or Depression

If you’re going through anxiety, ADHD, or depression, it may be time to seek help from a psychiatrist. It’s important to choose the right psychiatrist for you so that you get the best quality of ca...

The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis

Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Problem of Pain. He faces the hard question of why pain exists if God is good and all-powerful. Lewis starts with the nature of God and human free will. He s...

Archaeologists find and document the hydraulic system that supplied water for a thousand years to the ancient Greek city of Amphipolis

The bilateral collaboration between the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the University of Granada (UGR) and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres, known as EAA/MYA (Study of the Aqueduc...

Mt. Fuji decorated with a 500,000-flower pink carpet is Japan’s ultimate spring view

With mirrors, art installations, and a Peter Rabbit garden, this festival is the perfect day trip from Tokyo. There are always times when you might look at a photo of Japan and think, “Surely it ca...

Crocus City Hall Terrorism Trial Exposes Russian Counterterrorism Gaps

Uran Botobekov

FOSS Weekly #26.15: Rollback in apt, bad USB detection, Glass UI in KDE, Linux Kernel dropping older processor support and more

Some things from the past find their way back. Others are eventually left behind.

Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.

Nowhere Is Safe

Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and missile defense systems (THAAD, Patriot batterie...

Hugh's Rivals

When the title King of Jerusalem was up for grabs in 1268, there was more than one claimant. There had not been a king in situ for years because the title had been passed to children whose regents ...

Theotokos

It's been about a week of no cigs and no porn. Go me! While the time apart from those things is irrelevant, I am more optimistic about this attempt at abstinence. Especially regarding the pornograp...