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The Public Domain Review
Jan 27, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Autobiography of a “Jeep” (1943)

A WWII propaganda film narrated as an "auto"-biography

The New Leaf Journal
Jan 27, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

NBA Champions After Losing MVPs/All NBA Players

Every instance where an NBA player wins an MVP or makes an All NBA team with team X, leaves team X, and is still active and playing for a different team when team X wins a championship.

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Jan 25, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

In My Restless Dreams, I See Those Movies: The Silent Hill Cinema of Christophe Gans

Silent Hill is undergoing a bit of a boom at the moment, and as in any boom not all the products yielded by this current flurry of activity have been equally well-received. Silent Hill: Ascension s...

BEEW
Jan 25, 2026 from BEEW

The Forging & The Fruits

i. the forging (2020) In the early days of January 2020, I was helping my daughter pack for her semester abroad. It's what we do. She goes, I help get her ready to go. It's my way of staying close ...

BEEW
Jan 25, 2026 from BEEW

The Most Important Question Is the One You're Avoiding

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that progress comes from having good answers. That smart people solve problems, that th...

The Newsletter Leaf Journal
Jan 24, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXIV 〜 Footnote edition

Welcome to the 264th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form writing sister publica...

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Jan 24, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Doctor Who: Seven’s Sonic Seasons, Part 8

Last time we checked in on the Seventh Doctor’s audio adventures, I was left a little dissatisfied, feeling that the experiments in presenting the Doctor travelling alone prior to the TV movie had ...

riz#000000me
Jan 24, 2026 from riz#000000me

stuff

I don't know. I've been spending a lot of money, but generally I feel like the purchases have either been something I would buy later anyway or are actually something I've thought about and the pur...

riz#000000me
Jan 24, 2026 from riz#000000me

winter blows

The older I get, the more affected I am by seasonal depression. That's enough of a downer, but just taking stock of how it affects me: I do not want to go out in the cold. I don't even mind the col...

The New Leaf Journal
Jan 23, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Creating NLJ QR Code With QR Code Generator

I decided to create a QR code for The New Leaf Journal's homepage. After some research, I tried nayuki's QR Code Generator on GitHub.

The New Leaf Journal
Jan 22, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Adding noai.duckduckgo.com as Custom Search Engine

A short guide to adding the no AI version of DuckDuckGo to Chromium-based and Firefox-based web browsers as a custom search engine with shortcut.

Ploum.net
Jan 22, 2026 from Ploum.net

Why there’s no European Google?

Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is mostly a translation of a post I published in French three years ago. In light of the European Commis...

Improve Something Today
Jan 21, 2026 from Improve Something Today

Podcast episode No. 0034: On speeding things up

0034: On speeding things up0:00/497.0241×Episode details: a reading and discussion of this, from 2023 ↓On speeding things upLearning from the hourglass & the snake.Improve Something TodayBrian Kerr...

The Public Domain Review
Jan 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Cybernetic Attention: All Watched over by Machines We Learned to Watch

Before the attention economy consumed our lives, “pursuit tests” devised by the US military coupled man to machine with the aim of assessing focus under pressure. D. Graham Burnett explores these d...

The Public Domain Review
Jan 21, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Flights of Fancy: The Nine Birds of Jacques de Fornazeris (1594)

Etchings of birds in a somewhat theatrical style.

Improve Something Today
Jan 20, 2026 from Improve Something Today

With paper, glue & scissors: how little zines can make a big difference

Two ways to make an 8-page mini-zine using stuff you already have—and three reasons why you might do this.

The New Leaf Journal
Jan 20, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

PixelFade Studio VN Review Project

Canadian OELVN developer PixelFade Studio announced its "retirement" from visual novel development on January 19, 2026. I announce my plan to cover the three PFS novels I have not yet covered and i...

BEEW
Jan 20, 2026 from BEEW

Like>Love

We've been chasing the wrong thing for a long time. For centuries we've built our entire civilization around love — the songs, the movies, the holidays, the grand gestures, the heartbreak, the dram...

The Public Domain Review
Jan 20, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

Slides from twenty years of lecturing about the workings of the universe and the fate of the soul.

Ploum.net
Jan 19, 2026 from Ploum.net

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots What I like most about teaching "Open Source Strategies" at École Polytechnique de Louvain is how much I learn from my students, especially during the...

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