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Improve Something Today
Apr 09, 2026 from Improve Something Today

Questions along the way

The Periodic Table of Questions, ICA’s ORID, Liberating Structures’ W3, and more. How might we organize questions, and to what end?

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 09, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 9] - what the windowsill plant knows

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 9]Day Nine Happy ninth day of National/Global Poetry Writing Month, all. We hope that you’re really getting into the groove of this whole poem-a-day thing! Our featured partic...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-09-26

I am a bit late today because I just spent about an hour troubleshooting why I was not receiving calls on my Ubuntu Touch-powered Google Pixel 3a XL. I think I fixed the issue. With that aside, on ...

The Public Domain Review
Apr 09, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Broken Ground: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

A modernist adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. One of the first avant-garde films from America.

The Emu Café Social
Apr 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

The “Build A Boy” Project

I recall having read about a project which lets people turn Lego Game Boys into working Game Boys. I was reminded of it when I saw a link to the official Crowd Supply project, authored by Natalie C...

Noahie's Blog
Apr 09, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Theotokos

It's been about a week of no cigs and no porn. Go me! While the time apart from those things is irrelevant, I am more optimistic about this attempt at abstinence. Especially regarding the pornograp...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Blocking Bad Bots With AbuseIPD Blacklist

Sean Connor at The Boston Diaries wrote about trying to block annoying and/or malicious bots from crawling his website. It is a good read. Beginning in late 2024, I started noticing The New Leaf Jo...

The Public Domain Review
Apr 08, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Songs from the Commons: A Q&A with Simon Close about the Public Song Project

The creator of WNYC's Public Song Project on creativity, copyright, and the public domain.

The Emu Café Social
Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

On the Phone Map Crisis

The New York Post published a report (of sorts) about commuters having difficulty navigating the labyrithine Fulton Street (Manhattan) subway station, which functions as something of a major hub in...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-08-26

Another day ending in -day (that isn’t Saturday) means it is time for another edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Astonishing Find in the Czech Republic: Hikers Discover a 3.7 Kilogram Serbian/Bosnia...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 08, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 8] - it was nothing serious

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 8]Day Eight Happy second Wednesday of Na/GloPoWriMo, everybody! Today’s featured participant is Smita Vyas Kumar, whose response to Day Seven’s clapping/skipping prompt is a s...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Storing Photos on Someone Else’s Computer

Wojtek Powiertowski wrote a pair of interesting blog posts on backing up photos and checking photos for bitrot. Both posts are interesting and include valuable tips for protecting digital photo col...

The New Leaf Journal
Apr 08, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Using Marginalia Search’s Backlink Search

Marginalia Search may well be the best open source independent search engine on the web. Here, we look at how it can be used to find backlinks to indexed domains.

The Emu Café Social
Apr 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Japan’s Oil Imports

Access to natural resources has long been a challenge for Japan (see e.g., World War II). According to a report by Alex Kimani for OilPrice.com, prior to the commencement of Operation Epic Fury, Ja...

Toni Notes
Apr 08, 2026 from Toni Notes

When to split one idea into two posts

Some drafts do not need harder revision. They are carrying two different jobs, and the honest move is to notice when splitting will restore sequence, pressure, and a real center of gravity.

Noahie's Blog
Apr 08, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

No Enemies

I, like many Christians, have been having a tough time loving my enemies. I mean this not just in relation to my car crash earlier this week, but in most facets of life. The real essence of the law...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

April’s Pink Moon

The Moon has been in the news lately thanks to the Artemis II Mission. I shared a Supermoon fact back in December and “blood Moon” news in the March 1, 2026 Pook-Emu Bee. While checking the local w...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-07-26

I have a few new work assignments today (Sad!) but more than enough time (or just enough time) for our regularly scheduled edition of daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a pu...

Chronicles of Miss Miseria
Apr 07, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 7] - Count It Out // Girls on the Pavement

NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 7]Day Seven Welcome back, all — we’ve now hit the one-week mark in this year’s National/Global Poetry Writing Month! Also, thanks for your patience as we work through the cont...

The Emu Café Social
Apr 07, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

March 2026 Review (NLJ Link)

Over on The New Leaf Journal, I published my review of the month that was on NLJ, this humble publication, our newsletter, and my Pixelfed account. In the article, I shared our top-24 most-visited ...

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