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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Apr 07, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Crashing Light I got in a fucking car crash yesterday. I'm doing okay. I'm not severely injured, but my right toes are a bit messed up and I'm somewhat bruised. Other than that, I'm alright. My car got totaled. I...
Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Grokipedia Thinks I Wrote About Persona Q2 (I Have Never Played Persona Q2) I became aware that Grokipedia, the Grok-powered AI answer to Wikipedia, had cited to my NLJ article Outline Guide to Persona 3 FES The Answer. I previously wrote about Grokipedia making questionab...
Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Touching the Gowanus Canal? I recently came across Clive Thompson’s Linkfest newsletter (hosted on Buttondown just like my own Newsletter Leaf Journal). Each issue consists of links he collected from around the web with comme...
Apr 06, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-06-26 The Pook-Emu Bee, your favorite (or “favourite” if you prefer British English) daily links collection, returns after taking two days off for Newsletter Leaf Journal Saturday and Easter. 1. E-Bikes ...
Apr 06, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 6] - Monday, with Government Weather NaPoWriMo 2026 [April 6]Day Six Well, if it’s got to be Monday, at least it’s a Monday during Na/GloPoWriMo, so the work-week can start off with a bountiful crop of poems! Our featured participant ...
