Aug 14, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Rest Up I'm afraid of moving on. There's a certain paralysis-by-analysis that plagues me, if you can believe it! Even with all the pills I take every morning, I still find myself bereft of a sense of norma...
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Five Linux Apps to Install on Day One I read a How to Geek blog post titled 5 apps new Linux users should install on day one (HT Tux Machines). The author, Dibakar Ghosh, recommended the following apps: GNOME Tweaks and GNOME Extension...
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Finding a Good Monospace Font For Prose Unlike Ben Tsai, I have never been an engineer. But like Ben Tsai, I “appreciate the feel of a monospaced font, [and] want something that is optimized for prose.” In my case, I write drafts (and la...
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social “Moments Away” I added a significant number of Google News feeds for specific Brooklyn neighborhoods to my feed collection (future article topic?). I then went through the initial set of articles that came up. I ...
Aug 13, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal The Worm in My Shoe A 2026 story of a snake in a football helment in Arkansas reminded me of that time in 1995 when an earthworm found its way into my shoe.
Aug 13, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-13-26 I was working late into the night (unfortunately not on articles), but I am back for another Pook-Emu Bee link (one away from Sunday-Friday perfection before we yield the floor on Saturday for The ...
Aug 13, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Unutterable Whispers Remember when discourse used to be called rhetoric? Even though those French deconstructionists aptly foresaw its collapse, I still find myself itching for some kind of good argument. No, I don't m...
Aug 12, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-12-26 Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic brain modernizes aging CH-47 Chinook helicopters (Amir Khol...
Aug 12, 2026 from Toni Notes A small publication needs rhythm more than volume Readers do not feel a publication through raw output totals. They feel it through recognizable return, and a small publication becomes easier to trust when its return shape is legible.
Aug 12, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Gas Station Variant Hey man, remember when that 80s nostalgia-wave-core or whatever was really hot back in the 2010s? Like The Midnight, Timecop1983, and all that? Come on, you gotta remember those times, right? It wa...
Aug 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-11-26 We keep the Pook-Emu Bee link momentum going with more links from around the web. Articles 1 | NYC first lady Rama Duwaji traveling to Syria, Lebanon — with taxpayer-funded NYPD security detail: so...
Aug 11, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen Eight For a Wish, Nine for a Kiss The farmhouse beguiled Keel, riding the limit of his vision upon the distant hillside. It appeared as a ramble of joined-up houses and outbuildings predating the two ephemeral centuries his life ha...
Aug 11, 2026 from Case Vault — EN United California Bank Heist United States · 1972 · Heist — One of the most sophisticated bank heists in American history, carried out by breaking through the roof of a California bank. The crew stole millions before a small m...
Aug 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Persona 4 Dungeons Were Stressful? Gamer Braves conducted an interesting interview with Wada Kazuhisa, who is producer of the upcoming Persona 4 Revival. Long-time NLJ readers may know that I am a Persona 4 fan, although I am not pa...
Aug 11, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Weather Report A funny way of observing these entries is that they are a daily "weather report" in a certain sense. More established readers are well aware of the patterns in my prose when I'm manic or depressed,...
Aug 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-10-26 Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have bee...
Aug 10, 2026 from Ploum.net L’arnaque du bilan carbone L’arnaque du bilan carbone Pourquoi nous nous sommes fait avoir dans notre soi-disant lutte contre le réchauffement climatique Ne plus prendre l’avion, acheter des électroménagers de moindre consom...
Aug 10, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Little Cloud One can be smart and disabled, you know? I remember as a teenager during the peak of Obama II how the increasing rhetoric of "invisible disability" felt like such a grotesque cop-out. Funnily enoug...
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Desktop Environments and Distro Hopping This month marks my sixth year of running Linux exclusively on my computers, so I suppose that I am minimally qualified to offer an opinion on Bhuwan Mishra’s After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hoppin...
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-09-26 Pook-Emu Bee links are so real now that we’re delivering on Sundays. 1 | Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera (Al Williams for Hackaday. August 8, 2026.) A fitting entry in light of today’s New Leaf ...
