Nov 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Checking in on the Kyushu Basho Through Day 4 I made ten pre-tournament predictions for the now-ongoing Kyushu Basho on November 6. Now, through day four, I check in on my predictions with some new assessments. My yusho pick was K1w Yoshinofuj...
Nov 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Soldiers of Misfortune: The Drawings of Urs Graf the Elder A mercenary and miscreant, the Swiss Renaissance artist Urs Graf lived the violence and vice he summoned on his drafting table. Miya Tokumitsu introduces us to his astonishing drawings of soldiers ...
Nov 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season The recommended cut-off dates to order from our shop by to ensure delivery in time for Dec 25th.
Nov 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-11-26 Happy Veteran’s Day to all who served. While it is a federal holiday, the Pook-Emu Bee is ready for work. Veteran’s Day 1 | Veteran’s Day 2026. Dennis A. Mook at Wandering Lensman. Nov. 11, 2026. W...
Nov 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review The Triumph of Labour: Walter Crane’s Cartoons for the Cause (1896) Socialist illustrations intended as party favours for participants in the International Workers’ Congress.
Nov 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Facts About Best NBA Game Score Performances Inspired by Victor Wembanyama’s historic performance on November 4, 2026, wherein he posted a Game Score of 55.2 in just over 34 minutes of game action, I examined the minutes totals for players wh...
Nov 11, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Minute Totals in Best NBA Game Score Performances On 11-04-2026, Victor Wembanyama posted a historic Game Score of 55.2 in just 34 minutes of game action. I examine minute totals in the 49 best Game Score performances since 1983-84.
Nov 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social World’s Largest Artificial Reefs The SS United States, a historic 990-foot ocean liner, will be intentionally sunk off Florida’s Gulf Coast on Thursday, November 12, 2026. Mike Schuler, writing for gCaptain, noted that it will bec...
Nov 10, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy He’s a Maniac, Maaaaniac On the Force! A woman (Jill Gatsby) walks alone at night in New York. Two Puerto Rican guys attempt to mug her, and after fighting them off she flees. So far, this is all working according to the playbook in Rea...
Nov 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-10-26 Let’s make it two Pook-Emu Bee links posts in a row. Revisiting Prior Articles and Quips 1 | Report: Anti-Israel Former Dictator Nicolas Maduro Studying Judaism, Met With a Rabbi in Prison. Christi...
Nov 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review D. W. Griffith’s A Corner in Wheat (1909) D. W. Griffith’s moral tale of agricultural greed, borrowing from Frank Norris’ antimonopolist fictions.
Nov 10, 2026 from The Autodidacts Strategically compounding correlated variables A reader read a draft of my essay on measuring early stage progress, and said, that’s cute, but a more interesting question is what we should be compounding in the first place. Everyone seems to ag...
Nov 10, 2026 from The Autodidacts Holistic prioritization requires sometimes working on lower priority tasks At the risk of stating the obvious: always working on your #1 priority doesn’t work. I have learned this the hard way. (Most recently, when I tried David Gauer’s cool sticky note todo list system.)...
Nov 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-09-26 Pook-Emu Bee links have been sporadic lately. But my backlog grows. It is time for me to get back to work (before work-work, that is). How I avoided tech unpleasantness 1 | Your Gmail and Photos co...
Nov 09, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Lou Pearlman Ponzi Scheme United States · 1992–2007 · Fraud — Music mogul Lou Pearlman used the legitimate success of Backstreet Boys and NSYNC to conceal a massive financial fraud, stealing over $400 million from retail in...
Nov 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Open Source Tools Behind ECS Neil Brown is an English lawyer who runs his firm on free software. He recently shared the software that follows his law practice (see blog post). This humble website is also (mostly) powered by fr...
Nov 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Random Endpoint Coming in WordPress 7.2 WordPress 7.2 will come with a “random” endpoint (see WordPress post). The feature, which will be enabled by default, will create random redirects for individual posts (it can also be limited by ca...
Nov 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social RSS Used in a Non-tech Quip On March 5, 2026, City Journal published an entertaining and thoughtful essay by Ilya Shapiro titled Two Decades in the Swamp. I recommend the essay as a general matter, but here we will focus on j...
Nov 08, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy We Happy Few: You Janky Game It is the mid-1960s – swinging, happening, mid-1960s Britain, except actually not really. You see, in the timeline we’re visiting World War II took a very different course when Hitler was ousted by...
Nov 08, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 searchability and ai Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and the like want you to only search on their platforms, even if their search sucks.
