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Toni Notes
Mar 28, 2026 from Toni Notes

Your workflow is part of your mind

A trustworthy workflow does more than save material. Drafts, comments, next actions, and other external artifacts can preserve enough orientation that thought survives interruption instead of being...

Noahie's Blog
Mar 28, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Worse

It could always be worse. I had a great day at the gym yesterday. My workouts have been getting easier on me. I'm not too sore at all today, and I've been lifting heavier with every workout. When I...

The Emu Café Social
Mar 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Re; Improve the RSS experience of your blog readers

Jatan, writing on his Journal J blog, offers good advice for webmasters who want to promote feed subscriptions for their projects. Having tried to pitch people on feeds in real life, I concur entir...

The Emu Café Social
Mar 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-27-26

I am publishing today’s Pook-Emu Bee links a bit later than I had hoped due to having had a little bit more work on my recent assignment, but I now complete a second perfect week before our Saturda...

The Emu Café Social
Mar 27, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Seadra Pokémon Cosplay Photography

I am writing an article about Marginalia Search. I wanted to check something on the search results page. Since Marginalia is good at turning up small web and vintage websites and articles, I decide...

Noahie's Blog
Mar 27, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

The Wall

I might be hitting a wall. This project has helped me so much in learning how to write, develop routines, and instill a sense of stability in my life that I haven't felt in a long time. I am so gra...

BEEW
Mar 26, 2026 from BEEW

Max's Song

I'm in a Starbucks on a Tuesday afternoon, half-working, half-staring at a wall, when the opening synth line comes through the speakers. That pulsing, driving, unmistakable riff. Kate Bush's "Runni...

The New Leaf Journal
Mar 26, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Axe, Enchanting Musk, and Muskrats

An article about the smell of Axe Body Spray reminded me of when a friend in high school described his post-Axe usage "enchanting musk" and that time he called someone a "muskrat who swims in rivers."

The Emu Café Social
Mar 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Joke is on the Crunchyroll Hackers

Crunchyroll is investigating a potential hack which may have led to the exposure of customer email addresses. As readers of my anime writing on NLJ may know, I am a Crunchyroll subscriber (I have b...

The Emu Café Social
Mar 26, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-26-26

I am winding down a big project today. But I take a brief break to publish our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. I Just Moved From Manjaro Linux To EndeavourOS (Danie van der Merwe at GadgeteerZA. March...

The Public Domain Review
Mar 26, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“Wretches, Speak Evil of Me”: Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions (1896 edition)

One of the most elaborate works of literary insult ever written.

Ploum.net
Mar 26, 2026 from Ploum.net

Le logiciel, un nouveau pétrole ?

Le logiciel, un nouveau pétrole ? Extrait de mon journal du 24 septembre 2025 Nous sommes fiers de nous passer de pétrole grâce à des panneaux solaires contrôlés par des logiciels… appartenant aux ...

Noahie's Blog
Mar 26, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Pilgrim

This morning, I've been thinking about my past, particularly the crossroads I found myself at when graduating high school. During my senior year, many of my classmates were rampantly applying to do...

The Emu Café Social
Mar 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

OpenAI’s “Checkout Experiences”

I have been hard on “AI” tools at times. Among other things, I have questioned the wisdom of outsourcing ones online commerce activities to “agents” (see my posts on Ebay and Amazon). OpenAI is app...

BEEW
Mar 25, 2026 from BEEW

Tolstoy, Dr. Robby, and What We Owe Each Other

Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom · March 25 “As you acquire objects, and you use them, you should keep in mind that they are the products of people’s work. When you damage or destroy these objects, you...

The Emu Café Social
Mar 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-25-26

I have another busy “work” day ahead of me, but I won’t let that come between you and today’s Pook-Emu Bee daily links collection. 1. yokohama (Kat at Our Adventures in Japan. March 25, 2026.) Spri...

The Public Domain Review
Mar 25, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

Moneymaking caricatures by a teenage Monet, before he turned to Impressionism.

The Emu Café Social
Mar 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Jehovah’s Witnesses Remove WATCHTOWER Sign in Brooklyn (2017)

In the March 12 edition of Pook-Emu Bee, I shared a link to a story about a proposal to turn the former Jehovah’s Witness Watchtower buildings on Columbia Heights (between Brooklyn Heights and DUMB...

Noahie's Blog
Mar 25, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Vivid

Today has been slightly annoying. We've been having some problems with our refrigerator, and yesterday, we had a guy come out and "fix" it. He ended up being here for most of the day, but all he di...

Toni Notes
Mar 25, 2026 from Toni Notes

A draft is not just text, it is stored decision-making

A usable draft preserves more than sentences. It keeps scope, structure, emphasis, and live uncertainty visible so the next writing session does not have to rebuild the whole piece.

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