Another baffling Smurfs™ product from Dollar Tree. Full disclosure: I didn’t buy this, nor have I used it.

Zhang, T., Ma, C., Li, Y. et al.
Astronomically calibrating early Ediacaran evolution Nature Communications 16, 3049 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57201-1

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Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone?
Alexander A. Pavlov, Caroline Freissinet, Daniel P. Glavin, Christopher H. House, Jennifer C. Stern, Amy C. McAdam, Anais Roussel, Jason P. Dworkin, Luoth Chou, Andrew Steele, Paul R. Mahaffy, Denise Buckner, Felipe Gomez
Astrobiology, vol 26, no. 2, February, 2026

My TFTP honey pot has been running for over a month, continuously on my $5 a month VPS, and intermittently on my Dell R530 home server. It’s time to see what surprises it has captured.

One of my blog posts, the one about .git crawlers, got posted to Lobste.rs, a computers and computer science oriented link aggregator, and to Hacker News, a startup, venture capital ideology and occasional science/math link aggregator.

I’ve had another post make it to all three of Hacker News, Slashdot and Lobste.rs before, but on that occasion I compared Hacker News to Slashdot humans. Here, I compare Hacker News to Lobste.rs humans.

The packaging of a ergonomic, “vertical” mouse I bought from Newegg was inadequate. The instructions are inscrutable.

My infinite web site generator caught a .git/config crawler.

Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota
Judy P. Pu; Samuel A. Bowring; Jahandar Ramezani; Paul Myrow; Timothy D. Raub; Ed Landing; Andrea Mills; Eben Hodgin; Francis A. Macdonald
Geology (2016) 44 (11): 955–958.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G38284.1

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Robert A. Heinlein invented the Armored Suit for his 1959 military adventure, Starship Troopers.

Modern readers will see the Mobile Infantry’s armored suits through the lens of their own experience with microelectronics, and 60 years of experience and advances in guidance and control software.

I found a small series of odd HTTP requests from IPv4 address 104.244.79.113 while I was looking at Apache web server log files.