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  • 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...

  • Non-Meta Smartglasses and my Pet Issues

    Some time ago, I saved a link to a November 12, 2025 report in Wired titled Hate Meta? Even Realities Is Making the S...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-09-26

    I am a bit late today because I just spent about an hour troubleshooting why I was not receiving calls on my Ubuntu T...

  • The “Build A Boy” Project

    I recall having read about a project which lets people turn Lego Game Boys into working Game Boys. I was reminded of ...

  • Blocking Bad Bots With AbuseIPD Blacklist

    Sean Connor at The Boston Diaries wrote about trying to block annoying and/or malicious bots from crawling his websit...

  • On the Phone Map Crisis

    The New York Post published a report (of sorts) about commuters having difficulty navigating the labyrithine Fulton S...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-08-26

    Another day ending in -day (that isn’t Saturday) means it is time for another edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Aston...