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Famous Tokyo cherry blossom spot installs view-blocking screens to fight overcrowding[Video]

Once an under-the-radar sakura spot, this neighborhood near Shibuya has become dangerously congested. Around 20 years ago, Nakameguro was still one of Tokyo’s less famous, if-you-know-you-know cher...

Weekly Notes 13/2026

We had a long weekend due to Yugadhi and Eid. I didn’t do much. Mostly spent time at home, sleeping. I feel rested after a long time.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Shows You There's Potential in the Stable Release

Canonical has opened up Resolute Raccoon for testing, and the beta shows promise.

American English Spelling Mistakes

A very serious critique of American spellings of English words.

The Siege of Acre, Part 5

So Conrad of Montferrat married Isabella of Jerusalem,. the rightful queen, and took her back to Tyre while the former king by marriage to Isabella's older sister Sibylla, Guy of Lusignan, refused ...

Scientists sequence the genome of a 110,000-year-old Neanderthal and discover that he lived in the same cave as another Neanderthal 10,000 years earlier

An international team of researchers, led from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Yale University, has succeeded in sequencing the high-quality genome of a Neanderthal who l...

Your questions answered: How to use AI to optimize health

YLE webinar follow-up

TOML to YAML Converter

Convert TOML configuration files to YAML format directly in your browser. No data is sent to any server.

Books: Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #20)

Had trouble getting through this one, similar to Soul Music. It's not bad, but I find myself getting a bit tired of the whole "Death goes off on his extracurricular activities" schtick; it's entire...

Satellite Pollution

When was the last time RAM was this expensive?

Memory has become insanely expensive over just the past few months. Micron cut production of Crucial, their consumer brand of memory, to focus on data center products at the end of 20251. This was ...

The Wall

I might be hitting a wall. This project has helped me so much in learning how to write, develop routines, and instill a sense of stability in my life that I haven't felt in a long time. I am so gra...

What Are VCF Files and How to Open Them

Everything you need to know about VCF files — what they are, how to open them, how they work with contact sharing, and why they matter for digital business cards, address books, and contact managem...

Justices Barrett And Gorsuch Have Fallen Out Of Favor — See Also

Trump Nominateith, Trump Complaineth When He Doesn't Get His Way: Trump got big mad at his justices at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner. And Then There Were Eight: Which of th...

If The Shoe Fits…, Part 14

Read If The Shoe Fits…, Part 14 Customer: "This shoe is too small! You moron! I thought you said this is my size!" The cashier wordlessly takes the shoe, reaches inside, pulls out the paper filling...

Azerbaijan–Israel Relations Represent Middle Power Consolidation

Aybaniz Ismayilova

Thoughts On Concluding a One Ring Campaign

For the last year and a bit, I’ve been running the second edition of The One Ring for my Wednesday evening group. It’s been a lot of fun; we played through the Tales From the Lone-Lands campaign, w...

Max's Song

I'm in a Starbucks on a Tuesday afternoon, half-working, half-staring at a wall, when the opening synth line comes through the speakers. That pulsing, driving, unmistakable riff. Kate Bush's "Runni...

Lakritz die Katze

Eigentlich wollte ich etwas über Suchmaschinenindizierung schreiben… dann bin über eine Katzenseite gestolpert.

Axe, Enchanting Musk, and Muskrats

An article about the smell of Axe Body Spray reminded me of when a friend in high school described his post-Axe usage "enchanting musk" and that time he called someone a "muskrat who swims in rivers."