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...
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...
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."
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
Mar 24, 2026 from BEEW Three Generations of Men, One Unsettled Question Growing up, there was a short pile of books sitting out on the cocktail table in the den of my childhood home, the kind of decorative arrangement that had been there so long they stopped being obje...
Mar 24, 2026 from BEEW The Manosphere Didn't Invent Anything This essay was originally published on March 24th as "Three Generations of Men, One Unsettled Question." It's already one of the most widely read pieces on this blog, but several readers who wanted...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Getting to the Point in Blogs Words of wisdom from Leon Mika about getting to the point in blog posts.To expand a bit (without losing the point), I would advise my fellow internet writers to define the point in the writing proc...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-24-26 I am busy with work today. But today is a day ending in -day that is not Newsletter Satur-day, so I briefly set aside my business to deliver my not-yet-world-famous Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. FCC bans ...
