Aug 09, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Oh, My Giddy Audio! – The Second Doctor At Big Finish, Part 2 Time to hitch a ride with the Cosmic Hobo and take in some more Second Doctor audio releases. Last time we got four Companion Chronicles, one set in Season 4, two in Season 5, one in Season 6; this...
Aug 09, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal A Taste of Honey (2009) – Visual Novel Review Back in 2009, a speculative fiction author named Fred Warren adapted his own 2008 short story into a visual novel after learning about the medium. Here, I review A Taste of Honey, which remains fre...
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Used Game Stores in an All Digital World Much digital ink has been spilled on the slow decline of physical video games (including by yours truly). In a reply post by Jake at An Almost Anonymous Blog titled The importance of owning physica...
Aug 09, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Inflatable Summer Shark in Brooklyn Documenting an question-raising inflatable summer shark decoration in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Why would a shark need an inner tube and snorkel?
Aug 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social /e/ OS’s App Lounge Apparently Still As I Remember I used an /e/ OS-powered Teracube 2e as my daily driver phone from September 2021 to November 2022. It worked well enough for my purposes initially, as I explained in a very early review I publishe...
Aug 08, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Coolidge Air Conditioner 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCII Welcome to the 292nd 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 writing sister...
Aug 08, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who By Other Means: The Benny New Adventures, Part 1 When Virgin lost the licence to do Doctor Who novels, that could have been it – editor Rebecca Levene could have wound things down and let the line die. That, however, wasn’t the path that Virgin t...
Aug 08, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Puer Temporis A fun prompt engineering trick for my fellow writers out there: take whatever writing you have, upload it to the model, and give a prompt such as "This is a work of writing by an anonymous writer. ...
Aug 07, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy The BBC Past Doctor Adventures: From Neptune To London It’s high time I made a start working through the Past Doctor Adventures series as put out by BBC Books once the Doctor Who novel licence was wrested away from Virgin. As I noted in my first review...
Aug 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-07-26 I am a bit late today, but I decided to keep the Pook-Emu Bee links running with four in a row before our off-day tomorrow (Newsletter Saturday). 1. Private email is fine, actually (Matthew Guay fo...
Aug 07, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Free “Just Heavy :)” Air Conditioner in Brooklyn Reporting on a free air conditioner with note seen in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
Aug 07, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Collapse Man, taking that kpin yesterday really helped. Although last night, I made the mistake of drinking too much caffeine in the evening. It's a common mistake for me, especially when I am feeling waves...
Aug 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social PSA: Shueisha Makes Approximately 400 Manga Series Free For Limited Time I learned today that manga publisher Shueisha is making apppproximately 400 manga series free in 100 languages for a limited time beginning August 6, 2026 (“limited time” not defined). They are ava...
Aug 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-06-26 Is it safe to say the daily Pook-Emu Bee links are “daily” again with three posts in a row? 1 – Video Game Accounts Can Be Inherited, Chinese Court Rules (Li Xin for Sixth Tone. August 6, 2026.) Th...
Aug 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Learning About Zantigo I do not recall having heard of Zantigo before reading an August 5, 2026 piece in Atlas Obscura about its small revival. According to the article, Zantigo filled the same niche as Taco Bell but wen...
Aug 06, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Small Cross Hey, remember that one time you destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing? Yeah, me neither. I needed a short break from writing since being Professionally Disabled is such busy work, you know. I...
Aug 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-05-26 Two Pook-Emu Bee daily links in a row? What in the world is going on here? 1. Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan (Damien McFerran for Time Extension. July 5, 2026.) The Dr...
Aug 05, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Visual Novel Definition From Academic Paper I collected academic papers about visual novels for at least one ongoing NLJ article project. I figured that the best place to start my reading was “What is a Visual Novel?” This paper, authored by...
Aug 04, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-04-26 My “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links have been far from “daily” of late. As a result, my link backlog has grown to an ominous size. But today we get back on track. Tomorrow? That is always TBD, but baby s...
Aug 04, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Calvin Coolidge’s Homestead Oath of Office Studying and comparing four eyewitness accounts of the night Calvin Coolidge became president and had his father administer the oath of office in his childhood home.
