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Noahie's Blog
Oct 01, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Man of Scribbles

The rhetorician sleeps again. Two olanzapines last night, 400 mg of liquid caffeine this morning. The uneasiness and looming anxieties that come with mania drive me to such tears of lunacy that the...

The Emu Café Social
Sep 30, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-30-26

Time for the Sepender edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee Links. Subway Stories 1 | These salvaged relics in a Brooklyn subway station are the ghostly remains of old New York buildings ...

The Public Domain Review
Sep 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. F...

The Public Domain Review
Sep 30, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905)

Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.

Case Vault — EN
Sep 30, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Mona Lisa Theft

France · 1911 · Theft — In August 1911, Italian handyman Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre by hiding it under his worker's smock. He kept the masterpiece in his Paris room for o...

The New Leaf Journal
Sep 30, 2026 from The New Leaf Journal

Myself; Yourself and Watchable Bad Anime

I was reminded of a 2007 anime called Myself; Yourself. While I did not care for it, I remembered the when and why I watched it and then discussed how it is a great example of a watchable bad anime.

The Emu Café Social
Sep 29, 2026 from The Emu Café Social

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-29-26

You may wonder whether I sometimes go a week or so (a week in this case) without publishing Pook-Emu Bee links because I lack links. Not so. I collect links every day. That makes getting back to Po...

The Public Domain Review
Sep 29, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)

Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.

Noahie's Blog
Sep 29, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Christmas Tree Man

Less shit, not more. Especially with being more manic recently, my capacity to make decisions is disoriented by the constant streams of interconnected thoughts; oh, and of course there's the increa...

The Newsletter Leaf Journal
Sep 28, 2026 from The Newsletter Leaf Journal

Better late than letter 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCXCIX

Welcome to the 299th 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...

Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy
Sep 27, 2026 from Jumbled Thoughts of a Fake Geek Boy

Doctor Who: Big Fifth-ish, Part 10

It’s time once again to check in with the Fifth Doctor’s audio adventures. Last time, we had a mini-season of further travels with Nyssa in that gap between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity that Big...

Case Vault — EN
Sep 27, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

The Theranos Scandal

United States · 2002–2025 · Fraud — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and COO Sunny Balwani raised over $700 million by falsely claiming their proprietary devices could run hundreds of blood tests ...

Noahie's Blog
Sep 26, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Lesser Wizards

Your browser does not support the video tag. I saw a mule the other day. For the lesser wizards out there, if you see a guy who knows just when a building puts up a for-lease sign, practices Advanc...

Matt Rasmussen
Sep 25, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen

FLASK! WE’RE ON THE COVER OF PC GAMER!

Noahie's Blog
Sep 25, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Fuck off, Azazel

The man makes the times, huh? Come on now, Young Buck. There's still pockets of mania, but managing it with the medications has allowed my tongue to let its silver hues shine through a bit more, we...

The Autodidacts
Sep 24, 2026 from The Autodidacts

How to copy URLs of multiple Firefox tabs without installing an extension

It’s easy, once you know you can

Case Vault — EN
Sep 24, 2026 from Case Vault — EN

Lufthansa Heist

United States · 1978 · Heist — Armed robbers guided by an airline insider stole $5.875 million in cash and jewels from a JFK airport cargo terminal without triggering an alarm.

Noahie's Blog
Sep 24, 2026 from Noahie's Blog

Inverse Moth

A void? More like some weird chasm with funny little floating things in it, if you ask me. I've had to take some extended breaks from writing, such is the effect of a near-daily cadence for over a ...

Matt Rasmussen
Sep 23, 2026 from Matt Rasmussen

If You’re Wondering Why Polls Don’t Work in the US Anymore

…it’s because of garbage push polling like this. It’s a garbage company out of Florida (naturally) that runs research-polls.com, opinion-insight.com, research-opinions.com, and likely others. The g...

The Public Domain Review
Sep 23, 2026 from The Public Domain Review

In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)

An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early British Raj.

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