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The Emu Café Social

Entries

  • Development of the Anglerfish Lure

    I am a long-time admirer of the anglerfish, one of the ocean’s most aesthetic creatures. The University of Kansas new...

  • Second Best NBA Team of the 2000s

    User Matt15 posed a question on the RealGM Basketball Player Comparisons board: What was the second best NBA team of ...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-20-26

    I present for your reading enjoyment our daily selection of Pook-Emu Bee links for Monday, April 20, 2026. 1. AI Use ...

  • Installing Android and Linux on Switch

    I had seen on the LineageOS website that the LineageOS project supports a couple of different Nintendo Switch models....

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-19-26

    Pook-Emu Bee was off yesterday because it was Newsletter day. But the newsletter is out, and Pook-Emu Bee links are b...

  • New Victor V. Gurbo Podcast Interview

    My good friend Victor V. Gurbo (who has written some articles for NLJ) was interviewed by Charles Zona for an episode...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-17-26

    Today is Friday. That means it is time for our last Pook-Emu Bee link collection of the week (Saturday’s links come i...

  • Yellow-Capped Passover Coca Cola

    I never paid much attention to the color of caps on bottles of Coca Cola. In fact, I do not think I bought a bottle o...

  • On Vertical vs Horizontal Tab Hot Takes

    Manuel Moreale published a blog post on the vertical vs horizontal tabs debate. But instead of choosing a side in wha...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-16-26

    Today marks the 1957th anniversary of the death-by-suicide of the short-reigning Roman Emperor, Otho. I note this bec...

  • Unique Individual Scoring Games in NBA History

    I recently published a new NBA research project inspired by Bam Adebayo’s 83-point eruption on March 10, 2026. Noting...

  • AI Can’t “Lie”

    Ars Technica published an article by Ryan Whitam titled Testing suggests Google’s AI Overviews tell millions of lies ...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-15-26

    We have a second consecutive warm day in New York City. We also have a third consecutive day of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-14-26

    I did not have much time to engage in my daily “feed reading” this morning. But I will not let that stop me from publ...

  • Learning About Zespri RubyRed Kiwi

    I learned two things from Kat & Satoshi’s April 6, 2026 post on Our Adventures in Japan (see the first). The post fea...

  • Learning About Bonbon Drop Stickers

    Back in Newsletter Leaf Journal 269, I linked to an article about Pokémon card speculating which referenced “Bonbon D...

  • Google Verbatim Mode Custom Search Shortcut

    I read read a good article by Hana Lee Goldin at Card Catalog titled Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here’s How t...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-13-26

    There were no Pook-Emu Bee links on Saturday because it was newsletter day (22 links in issue 275!). There were no Po...

  • Asian Carp and Gefilte Fish

    I have read about the invasive Asian carp problem in U.S. waterways. But I learned something new from Dan Lewis’ aptl...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-10-26

    My Pook-Emu Bee links are a bit late today. I had to deal with an issue related to my wireless access point this morn...