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Weekly Notes 35/2026

It’s been a good but busy week. Lots of work got done. Though I think I am still lagging according to my TODO list. On a side note, I have been fairly active, with standard two days of P.T. and two...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

Pook-Emu Bee will be taking the weekend off, first for Newsletter Saturday and probably for Sunday, so let us finish this work week strong before I return to my day job. 1 | Study Linking Solar Far...

Collisions, Combinatorics, and Markov Analysis: `The Balance` Game Design

The Balance is a cooperative card game published by New Venture Games. The objective of the game is to set the top card on eight piles to the same value before the players run out of cards. Players...

Content Creators Will Love This FOSS Android App

Image Toolbox will draw you in with its export presets tailored for Instagram, X, YouTube, and more.

St. Cloud

Clodoald (522 - c.560CE) was (along with Theodebald and Gunthar) one of the three sons of King Chlodomer of Orléans. When Chlodomer was killed during an expedition against the Burgundians, his sons...

Two more kids die. And one more theater show.

Last year, I got a text from a friend in public health.

Kürtőskalács recipe

My recipe for Hungarian chimney cake.

This Is How Çatalhöyük Managed to Resist for a Thousand Years: Researchers Reveal the Keys to the Survival of the Legendary Neolithic Settlement

A team of researchers from the Istanbul Technical University has used an innovative computational model to unravel the dynamics that allowed the legendary Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük, in present-d...

AppCleaner and the files Mac apps leave behind

After years of moving unwanted Mac apps to the Trash, I tried AppCleaner to see how much data those apps can leave behind.

Launchpad

Rooftop Camper For Roofless Vehicle

The Honda Goldwing is one of the more famous motorcycles ever produced. It’s known for its reliability and comfort, but also for being one of the first motorcycles Honda rolls …read more

Un-Beer-lievable Tenacity

Read Un-Beer-lievable Tenacity Teenager: "You can't do this! I'm sixteen!" Me: "You are, barely. But your friends who are hiding around the corner and gave you all their money are not. And since I'...

A Heart Attack, A Billing Scheme, And $3,000 For The ‘Cabinets’: Inside One Associate’s Suit Against Troutman Pepper — See Also

He Survived A 'Widow-Maker' At The Office. Then, He Says, His Firm Went To Work On Him: A new lawsuit accuses Troutman Pepper Locke of moving the partnership goalposts after an associate's heart at...

Prosecution for Forging Court Order, Purportedly from Chief Justice Roberts:

Bloomberg News (Jordan Fischer) seems to have broken the story. Culver is also accused of impersonating an NSA agent, a… The post Prosecution for Forging Court Order, Purportedly from Chief Justice...

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littleFedi ist eine in Go geschriebener ActivityPub-Server

How Do You Finish the Year Strong? 10 Questions to Ask in September, Not December

Finish the year strong is advice that usually arrives in December, wrapped in urgency and roughly eleven months too late to matter. By then the calendar is a minefield of holidays, energy is at its...

Daily News Stuff 27 August 2026

Gack Edition Top Story Nvidia is in talks to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion. (Business Insider) Why? Amazon is acquiring DuckLabs, maker of DuckDB. (GeekWire) Hey, Amazon! (Waves.) I wrote a ...

You Can Now Run Multiple Linux Kernels on One Machine at Once

Multikernel has had its first public release, and it boots each kernel directly on the hardware, not inside a virtual machine.

Hobonichi unveils new 2027 planners, diaries and stationery with One Piece, Suica Penguin, Hello Kitty and a must-buy Mini Techo

We visit Hobonichi HQ in Tokyo to give you the highlights and our must-buy recommendations for next year’s range. Japan’s globally beloved Hobonichi Techo is back for another year, and the 2027 col...

LibreOffice 26.8 released with new paragraph composer & variable font support; still no AI

The Document Foundation has officially released LibreOffice 26.8, marking the latest major iteration of the popular open-source office suite. The release, developed over eight months beginning in D...