Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Tuta Calendar Thunderbird Integration AlternativeTo reported that email provider Tuta has released mail and calendar add-ons for Thunderbird. I have a cheap Tuta account (so cheap it is no longer available, thank you grandfathering) t...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Public Domain Review The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin Does the flâneur, that curiously modern figure who wanders metropolitan streets, have a political consciousness? For Franz Hessel — author of Spazieren in Berlin, “a memorization while strolling” t...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Autodidacts It’s surprisingly hard to reliably paste the current date at the cursor on Linux Long, long ago, in a dotfiles directory far away, I had this snippet: bindsym control+semicolon exec date '+%Y-%m-%d' | tr -d "\n" | xsel -i -b && xdotool sleep 0.5 key "ctrl+v" Isn’t it a beauty? ...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Autodidacts Paste clipboard contents in places where you can’t paste Use AutoKey send_keys() to put clipboard content places where it can't normally be put
Feb 25, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG Hype Mode Speaking, as I was, of hype: SmugMug and Flickr are launching something called Mode, or perhaps MODE. It claims to be “the next big thing in photography”. Their welcome email says it’s “the biggest...
Feb 25, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Shiroi Printer – Visual Novel Review My review of a very short 2018 Japanese horror visual novel called Shiroi Printer. It was released with an English-language version ("White Printer") that can be selected on the title screen.
Feb 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-24-26 Welcome to the first edition of the Pook-Emu Bee, where I will publish interesting links (maybe daily!) collected from my feed collection (or unused newsletter link backlog). I usually include 21 l...
Feb 25, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG On Contradictions And Confidence In an insightful post about being a contradiction because in actuality “everyone holds contradictions”, there’s one contradiction in particular that Greg seems to reveal along the way that I’m havi...
Feb 24, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: Oh, My Giddy Audio! – The Second Doctor At Big Finish, Part 1 After the first and second seasons of The Companion Chronicles test-drove the concept, Big Finish would regularly return to the Second Doctor era in the context of that series – a special format de...
Feb 24, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal Dave Cowens’ 1995 NBA Comeback That Wasn’t After learning that 1972-73 NBA MVP and Hall of Famer Dave Cowens apparently considered making a comeback with the San Antonio Spurs in 1995, 12 years after his last game, I had to conduct an inves...
Feb 24, 2026 from The Autodidacts The Fewer Ingredients The Better Good quality ingredients hardly need seasoning. I only need to add spices if I’ve burnt the soup.
Feb 24, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The Theft Of An Ideal Five days is a bit too far down the road for me just to add an addenda onto my most recent post about burnout, but I do need briefly to circle back because had I been thinking clearly, I’d have rem...
Feb 24, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The Fillion Tease Over the messaging transom today came the revelation that since late last year, Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk have had a podcast called Once We Were Spacemen, “where they get to know their fellow c...
Feb 23, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy The Reading Canary: Seeing the Aardvark’s Shadow Attempting to read Cerebus the Aardvark for what you could describe as “the good bits” is a bit like being Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day in reverse: if I don’t see the shadow of Dave Sim’s lat...
Feb 23, 2026 from The Autodidacts Social Cache Busting How do you ask questions that people don’t just hippopotamus?
Feb 22, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Bellairs At the Crossroads John Bellairs as an author was prolific in his lifetime, and ended up being one of those authors whose signature series get extended by other hands for well after their deaths, but there are two no...
Feb 22, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG ‘Spitting In The Wind Comes Back At You Twice As Hard’ Sometimes blogging is serendipitous even when you initially have some sort of a plan. I’ve been wanting for the past day to find a way to mention a particular blog post by someone but didn’t feel l...
Feb 22, 2026 from The Autodidacts The Evening Writing Effect Time for some night-owl counter-propaganda
Feb 22, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Sixth generation 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXVIII Welcome to the 268th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form writing sister...
Feb 22, 2026 from BIX dot BLOG The Font Of Wisdom In my (coming up on) twenty-six years of blogging, I’ve had some site designs you’d have been right to call “aggressively unreadable”. Just take a look at this design used on furiousnads.com in the...
