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Can we be just like Shohei Ohtani on a budget with a Hello Kitty cap?

Hello Ohtani. Recently, I’ve been noticing a lot of guys around town sporting haircuts very similar to baseball’s living legend Shohei Ohtani. It makes perfect sense of course. I imagine any man wo...

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Read I met a guy through a dating website. We had rollerskating in common, so we went to a rollerskating rink for our first date together. Once we got into the skating rink, he started breaking out...

Lying Has Consequences, Feds — See Also

Liars Keep Losing In Court: Judges keep catching federal officers with their pants on fire. These Aren't The Lawyers You've Been Looking For: OpenAI helps shut down fake law empire. When Mardi Gras...

Melbourne Photography XIV

If I told you I was trying to focus on the central leaf you may not believe me. Two rolls of black and white film and two ideas: shooting a lens wide open at f/1.4, and double exposures. Shooting t...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sure Knew How To Turn A Phrase

His impact even extends to pop culture. The post Oliver Wendell Holmes Sure Knew How To Turn A Phrase appeared first on Above the Law.

Fish & Chips With A Side Of Guesswork

Read Fish & Chips With A Side Of Guesswork Worker: "It'll be ready in [garbled] minutes." Me: "Sorry, was that 15 or 50? One-five or five-zero?" Worker: *Same garbled number.* Me: "Fifteen, one-fiv...

We don’t know until the end, and it’s never the end

Judging a book by its content doesn’t work either

The ‘Firefly’ Tease?

Nathan Fillion continues to tease something on the Instagram page for the Once We Were Spacemen podcast he hosts with Alan Tudyk. Having once been for a long time the enthusiasm crusher in Firefly ...

Unripe septics, unripe Commandments, and technological advances.

Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal

Daily News Stuff 27 February 2026

Flying Or Non-Flying Edition Top Story If your corporate wifi has a guest network active, tell whoever is responsible that they might not want to do that. (Tom's Hardware) Same goes for home wifi t...

From Thunar to PCManFM

I run EndeavourOS on my main workstation. I recently switched from XFCE to Cinnamon due to having flickering/performance issues with XFCE after a Nvidia update. I was still using XFCE’s Thunar as m...

The fish in rural Fukui that rivals Japan’s most auspicious sea bream

This Obama delicacy impresses with its sashimi-like flavor, which is almost unthinkable for a preserved food. Despite its popularity among dinosaur enthusiasts, Fukui remains among the more undervi...

Queen Melisende

With Fulk of Anjou dead from a riding accident in 1143, Melisende now had full control over the Kingdom of Jerusalem with her son Baldwin III still only 13 years old. (The illustration is of their ...

GNOME 2.20 but its Web Components

Just because we could didn't mean that we should

Measles and echo chambers, fresh science, and more

Behind the Curtain (Feb 27)

PLA Reorganizes Space Information Support and Assurance Mission

Kristin Burke

Weekly Notes 09/2026

The work has been hectic. I actually don’t like hectic mode. I prefer being prepared and doing planned activities. But I do understand that not all real-world things can be planned, so one will fee...

Firefox AI Killswitch

Nice to see that the Firefox team have actually implemented their "AI killswitch" in the way that they said they would. Here's a screenshot from my copy of Firefox 148: Very happy to see this land,...

On the importance of thought leadership

Over the last 20+ years in IT, I’ve been lucky enough to work across many roles and industries. In that time, I’ve always found that the work we do, and that we’re measured against, is only one sid...

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