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May 14, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Funding a Crusade

When Henry III's son Edmund Crouchback was 23 years old, he pledged to go on crusade with his brother, Edward, and a cousin, Henry of Almain (son of Henry III's brother, Richard of Cornwall; Henry ...

May 14, 2026 from Rock and Null

Pale Blue Spring Admin: Now you can actually edit stuff (and custom UI snippets)

Read-only is great, but editing is better. The latest update to Pale Blue Spring Admin introduces full CRUD functionality and custom UI snippets, making your Spring Boot admin panel as powerful as ...

May 14, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Weighing Large Owls

I have never had to weigh an owl before, much less a large owl. But in the event I were ever called upon to weigh a large owl, I learned from MARS Wildlife Rescue, via Owls in Towels (see Owls in T...

May 14, 2026 from Michael Lynch

Refactoring English: Month 17

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...

May 14, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Boats

This one's gonna be a bit dark, so don't read further if that's not what you can handle right now. My uncle shot himself in the head a few nights ago. He took his .22 and put it just underneath his...

May 13, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net

Snapseed 4.0 finally lands on Android after years of waiting with Snapseed Camera

Snapseed 4.0 is finally rolling out on Android after years of waiting, ending a long gap since the app’s last major Android update and bringing over features that had recently been exclusive to iOS...

May 13, 2026 from Above the Law

Another Firm, Another Nonequity Partner Tier — See Also

Will A&O Shearman Be The Next Big Name To Adopt The Tier?: Sure looks like it! One Hell Of A Campaign: George Conway is running on impeaching Trump. New To The Game And True To It: Judge gives Susm...

May 13, 2026 from Hackaday

FreeCAD 1.1 Tutorial, For Beginners Who Like Clear Instructions

If you’ve been interested in FreeCAD but haven’t known where to start, here’s a wonderful video tutorial for FreeCAD 1.1 by [Deltahedra] aimed squarely at how to model a 3D …read more

May 13, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

Misunderstanding The Scale Of The Problem

Read Misunderstanding The Scale Of The Problem Customer: "Is this thing in pounds or kilometres?" Me: "It's in kilograms." Read Misunderstanding The Scale Of The Problem

May 13, 2026 from The Jamestown Foundation

Vladimir Putin Creating ‘New Oprichnina’

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May 13, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

Overhead Projector 3: EOY 2526

Reviewing the 2526 academic year and predicting the future; AI FUD about education.

May 13, 2026 from Bobby Hiltz

Overhead Projector 3: EOY 2526

Reviewing the 2526 academic year and predicting the future; AI FUD about education.

May 13, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy

Starting Statement with "LOL" Doesn't Keep The Assertion in It From Being Potentially Libelous

From yesterday's decision by Judge Dana Sabraw (S.D. Cal.) in Button v. Lopresti: The Court accepts the Amended Complaint's allegations… The post Starting Statement with "LOL" Doesn't Keep The Asse...

May 13, 2026 from Ambient Irony

Daily News Stuff 13 May 2026

Booblegook Edition Top Story Google's Googlebook is the company's answer to Google's Chromebook. (Tom's Hardware) It's a laptop running Android. Which raises the question: Why didn't the Chromebook...

May 13, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News-

Ichiraku Ramen-inspired ramen sets from Naruto anime pay homage to Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura

The new sets of noodles and bowls make excellent souvenirs for lovers of both Naruto and ramen. Lovers of the hit ninja anime series Naruto grew up watching protagonist Naruto slurping down bowl af...

May 13, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition

A 400,000-Year-Old Tooth Found in China Links Homo erectus with Denisovans and Modern Humans

A team of scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully extracted molecular information from six fossil t...

May 13, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races before the Age of Linotype

Before Linotype revolutionised typesetting in the 1880s, compositors set texts by hand — and they set them *fast*. Alex Wright rediscovers the thrilling world of typesetting races, which drew crowd...

May 13, 2026 from It's FOSS

Fedora Hummingbird Debuts As A Super Hardened Linux Distro

Fedora Hummingbird ships the entire OS as a bootable OCI image with atomic updates and rollback support.

May 13, 2026 from Daily Medieval

Edmund Crouchback

Henry III wanted another son. His first son, Edward, was followed by a daughter, Margaret, and Henry needed at least "an heir and a spare." So he prayed to the 9th-century East Anglian king Edmund ...

May 13, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

[dVerse] May 12th - A Room that Misremembers its Windows

A Room that Misremembers its WindowsIn the stitched room,the window does not promise escape.The window is not open.The window is performing openness.It offers a square of greenheld in place by pati...