Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Turning a Blog Into a Book Wouter Groeneveld published a blog post on his blog, Brain Baking, titled The Archivist In Me Turned This Blog Into a Book. I have thought about creating a book from the millions of words I have pu...
Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Static Site Webmentions Blogger Michael Harley wrote a post about adding webmention support to his blog. I am pro-webmention (see my NLJ post on site-to-site conversations, so I sent my congratulations in webmention form....
Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-11-26 I missed Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, but I am making sure to make up for it by starting this post yesterday. 1. Uzbek Fighters in Syria Face Tensions with Al-Sharaa’s Government (Jacob Zenn for J...
Jun 11, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art Paintings from an era when Venetians brawled on bridges.
Jun 11, 2026 from The Emu Café Social A Moka Pot Pen I came across a blog post on Extra Fine Writing titled Check it out, a weird little pen that looks like a coffee pot. When I saw the headline on The Well Apportioned Desk, I was not sure what to ex...
Jun 11, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Discovering the Former “The New Leaf Journal” I learned some time ago that there was a former thenewleafjournal.com. Today, we examine our domain name predecessor.
Jun 11, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Bird Among Monkeys Your browser does not support the video tag. I keep returning to this thought on IQ, so I have to write it down before it drives me insane. I've been in a lot of online spaces where people place so...
Jun 10, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Genevieve Stebbins’ Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression (1886) A philosophical system and a practical guide for the cultivation of dramatic genius.
Jun 10, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Giving Defunct Blogs Proper Burials Robert Birming published an interesting short blog post titled Where do blogs go when they die? He noted having noticed that many blog posts shared in recent years by participants in his Junited in...
Jun 10, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Unknown Bugs "I don't know what you are, but you have to die." That's what I said to a bug that flew in my face while I was smoking on my back patio the other night. I'm scared of bugs, okay? Anyway, saying som...
Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social The History Blog and Japanese Saws I follow The History Blog by psuedynmous blogger livius. It features blog posts about history (surprise?) focusing significantly on archaeology news. Significantly, The History Blog links to source...
Jun 09, 2026 from The Autodidacts The search for a good offline dictionary for Linux … proved longer than expected
Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Great Falls, Montana, and Cascade County I have never been to Montana. Save for the occasional competitive U.S. Senate race, Montana is also not a common election hotspot. Thus, I never thought much about counties in Montana. I just learn...
Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-09-26 I am on a daily Pook-Emu Bee links roll. Today, I keep it doing with a third consecutive edition of the links. 1. Construction of jail in tony NYC nabe turns into potentially deadly ‘clown show’ wi...
Jun 09, 2026 from The Public Domain Review The Launch of Our Mid-Year Fundraiser! Our Mid-Year Fundraiser is launched, and the new postcards theme will be Soil.
Jun 09, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Shooting Successfully With Any Footwork in Basketball I came across Brian McCormick’s Hard2Guard Player Development Newsletter, which focuses on coaching basketball, via Mike Klinzing’s Hoops Head Podcast Newsletter (Hoops Head inspired one of my rece...
Jun 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social No Grand Slam Winners in 2026 French Open Men’s R16 I watched a good amount of most of tennis’ grand slams from about 2000 through 2013 or so. I was a Roger Federer fan, and for a good chunk of that period, you could always count on Mr. Federer play...
Jun 08, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Fallen Double Arrow Sign in Columbia Street Waterfront District It has been too long since I reported on a fallen street sign. For the first time ever, we cover (A) a fallen Double Arrow sign and (B) a fallen street sign in Columbia Street Waterfront District.
Jun 08, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-08-26 Wherein I managed to successfully publish my “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links for a second consecutive day (what a twist!). 1. Persona 4 Revival Broadcast Announced As Atlus Reveals New Mechanics, Editio...
