The Emu Café Social

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The Emu Café Social

Entries

  • Ambient Irony on Amodei vs Altman

    I look forward to reading Pixy Misa’s Daily News Stuff posts (seven days a week), which feature links to tech and pol...

  • The Case Against Share Buttons

    Back in The New Leaf Journal’s early days, I had share buttons on my articles. I eventually removed them in part beca...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-18-26

    I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday and am late today, but we can hardly let a backlog grow… so let us link today. ...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-16-26

    Time for a new edition of Pook-Emu Bee links on this very pretty (in Brooklyn, at least) June 16. 1. SCOTUS To Newman...

  • How I’ll Take My Coffee

    Simon at Firesphere.dev wrote a short post titled If you want to buy me a coffee in response to a hot take post on th...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-15-26

    Monday is a fun day. One reason Monday is a fun day is because it marks the return of Pook-Emu Bee links after the we...

  • AI Slop About Medieval London

    I was linked to a site called Fake History Hunter a few weeks ago. The author, a former historical consultant, uses h...

  • New Features in ActivityPub For WordPress 9.0

    ActivityPub for WordPress version 9.0 was just released, and a blog post by lead developer Matthias Pfefferle goes ov...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-12-26

    I have an assignment I need to finish today. But I will not let that stop me from capping off the work-week with one ...

  • Missing Brand Music Video Ads

    According to a May 27, 2026 report in Marketing Brew by Katie Hicks titled Why so many brands are releasing music vid...

  • Turning a Blog Into a Book

    Wouter Groeneveld published a blog post on his blog, Brain Baking, titled The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a...

  • Static Site Webmentions

    Blogger Michael Harley wrote a post about adding webmention support to his blog. I am pro-webmention (see my NLJ post...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-11-26

    I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, but I am making sure to make up for it by starting this post yesterday. 1. Uzb...

  • A Moka Pot Pen

    I came across a blog post on Extra Fine Writing titled Check it out, a weird little pen that looks like a coffee pot....

  • Giving Defunct Blogs Proper Burials

    Robert Birming published an interesting short blog post titled Where do blogs go when they die? He noted having notic...

  • The History Blog and Japanese Saws

    I follow The History Blog by psuedynmous blogger livius. It features blog posts about history (surprise?) focusing si...

  • Great Falls, Montana, and Cascade County

    I have never been to Montana. Save for the occasional competitive U.S. Senate race, Montana is also not a common elec...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-09-26

    I am on a daily Pook-Emu Bee links roll. Today, I keep it doing with a third consecutive edition of the links. 1. Con...

  • Shooting Successfully With Any Footwork in Basketball

    I came across Brian McCormick’s Hard2Guard Player Development Newsletter, which focuses on coaching basketball, via M...

  • No Grand Slam Winners in 2026 French Open Men’s R16

    I watched a good amount of most of tennis’ grand slams from about 2000 through 2013 or so. I was a Roger Federer fan,...