Jan 05, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal November and December 2025 at The New Leaf Journal Reviewing the months that were at The New Leaf Journal (and sister sistes) in November and December 2025.
Jan 05, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Doctor Who: The Virgin Reference Guides Alright gang, it’s taken me a couple of years to do it, but I’m headed towards the end of my coverage of Virgin Books’ Doctor Who material. As well as one final review of the New Adventures and Mis...
Jan 05, 2026 from Ploum.net How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem I teach a course called "Open Source Strategies" at École Polytechnique de Louvain, part of the University of Louvain. As part of my cour...
Jan 04, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy Lexxual Debauchery: Season 2 At the end of the first season of Lexx, Stanley Tweedle and his friends acquaintances Kai, Zev, and 790 defeated His Divine Shadow once and for all and flew the Lexx to the Dark Zone, with a more t...
Jan 04, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXI 〜 Snow King Year Happy New Year and welcome to the 260th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal and its short-form wri...
Jan 02, 2026 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Jan 02, 2026: Will the world offer itself to me, Kafka? The morning started with some more ruminatory daydreaming. Stuffing myself full of other people’s talents until it felt less like inspiration and more like bingeing, scrolling, absorbing, hoarding ...
Jan 01, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Happy Public Domain Day 2026! Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
Dec 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Dec 31, 2025 – Jan 01, 2026: Nobody Is Here. Happy New Year. “Nobody Is Here.” Is the chant I chant I have been chanting. It keeps looping, not loud enough to be prayer, not honest enough to be a lie. Things have been happening and I have been wondering wher...
Dec 31, 2025 from BEEW Socks, Geniuses, Gangsters A few bright spots from 2025. This summer I posted a short piece called There’s A Crack In Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In. It came out of a period of cultural vertigo, dark headlines, dis...
Dec 30, 2025 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy “What Has Happened To the Magic of Doctor Who?” – A Ranking of the Heart Too Long To Wait, Long Enough To List There was no Doctor Who Christmas special this year – in fact, there’s no new Doctor Who on television (not counting Doctor-less spin-offs) until Christmas 202...
Dec 28, 2025 from The Public Domain Review Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025 From sublime spheres to hungry cats, a rundown of the ten most read of what we published this year.
Dec 27, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLX 〜 The Gingerbread Letter Welcome to the 260th 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...
Dec 20, 2025 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLIX 〜 Christmas Rivers Welcome to the 258th 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...
Dec 19, 2025 from Ploum.net Prepare for That Stupid World Prepare for That Stupid World You probably heard about the Wall Street Journal story where they had a snack-vending machine run by a chatbot created by Anthropic. At first glance, it is funny and i...
Dec 15, 2025 from BEEW Hope Is a Complicated Little Bastard Sometimes the mind underlines things before you know why. You jot down a quote, a song lyric, something someone said, something that strikes you as important, then another, then another, and before...
Dec 15, 2025 from Ploum.net How We Lost Communication to Entertainment How We Lost Communication to Entertainment All our communication channels are morphed into content distribution networks. We are more and more entertained but less and less connected. A few days ag...