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  • 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...

  • Storing Photos on Someone Else’s Computer

    Wojtek Powiertowski wrote a pair of interesting blog posts on backing up photos and checking photos for bitrot. Both ...

  • Japan’s Oil Imports

    Access to natural resources has long been a challenge for Japan (see e.g., World War II). According to a report by Al...

  • April’s Pink Moon

    The Moon has been in the news lately thanks to the Artemis II Mission. I shared a Supermoon fact back in December and...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-07-26

    I have a few new work assignments today (Sad!) but more than enough time (or just enough time) for our regularly sche...

  • March 2026 Review (NLJ Link)

    Over on The New Leaf Journal, I published my review of the month that was on NLJ, this humble publication, our newsle...

  • Grokipedia Thinks I Wrote About Persona Q2 (I Have Never Played Persona Q2)

    I became aware that Grokipedia, the Grok-powered AI answer to Wikipedia, had cited to my NLJ article Outline Guide to...

  • Touching the Gowanus Canal?

    I recently came across Clive Thompson’s Linkfest newsletter (hosted on Buttondown just like my own Newsletter Leaf Jo...

  • Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-06-26

    The Pook-Emu Bee, your favorite (or “favourite” if you prefer British English) daily links collection, returns after ...