Sep 16, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Veronese's Dogs “Oh, if I could only pray”, Luther once said of his dog Tölpel, “the way this dog watches the meat”. Attending to attentive canine figures in half a dozen paintings by Paolo Veronese, Thomas W. Laq...
Sep 16, 2026 from Case Vault — EN The Great Train Robbery United Kingdom · 1963 · Heist — A criminal gang tampered with track signals to stop a Royal Mail train in Buckinghamshire, making off with over £2.6 million in cash before abandoned clues at their ...
Sep 15, 2026 from The Public Domain Review It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919) “A Cat-astrophe” came on the tail end of an odd 1918 boom in cat-themed music.
Sep 15, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen A Decade – Our Lady Peace (I’m thinking) Why-e-y-e-y-e-yeah? SUPERMAN’S DEAD! Our Lady Peace was one of the more underrated bands of the ’90s.
Sep 15, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-15-26 My posting out-put has been subpar of late, but today the Pook-Emu Bee links return for the first time since September 10. 1 | 25 Years Since the Worst Day in My Lifetime (Andrew R. Arthur for Cent...
Sep 14, 2026 from Ploum.net Soyez humains, communiquez ! Soyez humains, communiquez ! Pourquoi le moindre humain écrira toujours mieux que le chatbot le plus perfectionné. Dans ma vie, j’ai écrit plusieurs millions de mots, sur des myriades de sujets et ...
Sep 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social 2026 Aki Basho Sumo Predictions Before July’s Nagoya Basho (July grand sumo tournament), I predicted which wrestlers I thought would reach 10 wins. Now, one tournament wiser, I will predict the entire field for the September 2026...
Sep 13, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Copied Wrong 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCVII Leafy Intro Welcome to the 297th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form wr...
Sep 12, 2026 from Case Vault — EN D. B. Cooper Hijacking United States · 1971 · Hijacking — A passenger calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727, extorted $200,000, and parachuted from the plane's aft stairs into the night storm, vanishing withou...
Sep 10, 2026 from Improve Something Today Complaints with recommendations—a simple facilitation method A fun way to get people talking about what’s not working in a project & their ideas for what to do about it.
Sep 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-10-26 We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened. But today I have a window for links. Back and better than ever? 1 | NCAA decla...
Sep 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century) By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death.
Sep 09, 2026 from Ploum.net I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. I don’t care if you call it AI, LLM...
Sep 08, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Big Finish, Bigger Scarf – The Fourth Doctor Audios, Part 2 Once upon a time in the 1970s, Tom Baker had picked up the Doctor Who baton from Jon Pertwee and made it well and truly his own – an impressive feat given Pertwee’s longevity and popularity in the ...
Sep 08, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Charles Barkley on Scottie Pippen’s Aborted 2007 NBA Comeback I remembered Charles Barkley having a humorous reaction on a 2007 episode of Inside the NBA when confronted with news that Scottie Pippen was planning a comeback. I decided to find more information...
Sep 08, 2026 from The Public Domain Review The Ties that Bind: Central Asian Ikat (ca. 19th century) Vibrant textiles from the dazzling Timurid metropolis of Bukhara.
Sep 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social PSA on RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and Brisk News respectively. Bot sites are built by Profullstack, Inc. I discovered...
Sep 06, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal RSS Amplifier Re-Publishes 19 Full NLJ Articles Without Permission A PSA about a new scraping service for AI crawlers that syndicated (charitably) or re-published (less charitably) 19 New Leaf Journal articles without permission, before I identified the issue.
Sep 05, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Syndicated Newsletter Leaf Journal 296 A syndicated copy of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 296.
