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Let us complete our perfect Pook-Emu Bee link week before our regularly scheduled day off for Newsletter Saturday. 1 | Sekiwake Wakatakakage Begins Rehabilitation After Narrowly Avoiding Leg Amputation in Emergency Surgery (Sumostats. July 29, 2026.) Scary stuff. Hoping first for a safe and speedy recovery and second for him to quickly return to the […]
I read a How to Geek blog post titled 5 apps new Linux users should install on day one (HT Tux Machines). The author, Dibakar Ghosh, recommended the following apps: GNOME Tweaks and GNOME Extensions (if using GNOME) KDE Connect or GSConnect A Chromium-based browser OnlyOffice Flatpak All five recommendations are sensible. My only amendments […]
Unlike Ben Tsai, I have never been an engineer. But like Ben Tsai, I “appreciate the feel of a monospaced font, [and] want something that is optimized for prose.” In my case, I write drafts (and law stuff for my day job) in KDE’s Ghostwriter and prefer monospace fonts while writing in markdown. Many of […]
I added a significant number of Google News feeds for specific Brooklyn neighborhoods to my feed collection (future article topic?). I then went through the initial set of articles that came up. I decided to read Timeless Brooklyn Reimagined: Minerva Development Unveils 263 Sackett in the Heart of Carroll Gardens since I know the area. […]
I was working late into the night (unfortunately not on articles), but I am back for another Pook-Emu Bee link (one away from Sunday-Friday perfection before we yield the floor on Saturday for The Newsletter Leaf Journal). 1 | Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their […]
Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic brain modernizes aging CH-47 Chinook helicopters (Amir Kholam for Interesting Engineering. August 11, 2026.) This reminds me of replacing the SSD and RAM in a cheap laptop I purchased on […]
We keep the Pook-Emu Bee link momentum going with more links from around the web. Articles 1 | NYC first lady Rama Duwaji traveling to Syria, Lebanon — with taxpayer-funded NYPD security detail: sources (Carl Campanile for the New York Post. August 10, 2026.) I saw this story last night. I had a fun quip […]
Gamer Braves conducted an interesting interview with Wada Kazuhisa, who is producer of the upcoming Persona 4 Revival. Long-time NLJ readers may know that I am a Persona 4 fan, although I am not particularly excited for what would be my third version of P4 (I had the original several years before Golden came out). […]
Pook-Emu Bee links are back today as we start the new work-week. 1 – Persona 30th Anniversary Paper Fragrances Feature Designs Announced (Orpheus Joshua for Noisy Pixel. August 9, 2026.) I have been a Persona fan since I first played FES more than 16 years ago. I have been seeing one 30-year anniversary note after […]
This month marks my sixth year of running Linux exclusively on my computers, so I suppose that I am minimally qualified to offer an opinion on Bhuwan Mishra’s After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro. Speaking for myself and save for briefly using Ubuntu with Unity on […]
Pook-Emu Bee links are so real now that we’re delivering on Sundays. 1 | Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera (Al Williams for Hackaday. August 8, 2026.) A fitting entry in light of today’s New Leaf Journal review of A Taste of Honey. 2 | RV Steelhead (Tugster: A Waterblog. August 8, 2026.) Survey research […]
Much digital ink has been spilled on the slow decline of physical video games (including by yours truly). In a reply post by Jake at An Almost Anonymous Blog titled The importance of owning physical (and digital) media when possible, he noted that the demise of physical games will result in the corresponding demise of […]
I used an /e/ OS-powered Teracube 2e as my daily driver phone from September 2021 to November 2022. It worked well enough for my purposes initially, as I explained in a very early review I published in November 2021, but I would eventually switch to a LineageOS-powered Google Pixel 3a XL (which, coincidentally, is my […]
I am a bit late today, but I decided to keep the Pook-Emu Bee links running with four in a row before our off-day tomorrow (Newsletter Saturday). 1. Private email is fine, actually (Matthew Guay for Buttondown Blog. August 7, 2026.) I agree. But I my own solution (SimpleLogin) is not specifically listed (they note […]
I learned today that manga publisher Shueisha is making apppproximately 400 manga series free in 100 languages for a limited time beginning August 6, 2026 (“limited time” not defined). They are available at https://mangamillion.shueisha.co.jp/en. Moreover, Shueista notes that all of the manga were translated by human beings rather than AI. I am more of an […]
Is it safe to say the daily Pook-Emu Bee links are “daily” again with three posts in a row? 1 – Video Game Accounts Can Be Inherited, Chinese Court Rules (Li Xin for Sixth Tone. August 6, 2026.) The game account inheritance news from China you have been waiting for. 2 – Switch 2 Surpasses […]
I do not recall having heard of Zantigo before reading an August 5, 2026 piece in Atlas Obscura about its small revival. According to the article, Zantigo filled the same niche as Taco Bell but went extinct after its parent company merged with Taco Bell’s. By the end of 1988, all Zantigo locations were closed […]
Two Pook-Emu Bee daily links in a row? What in the world is going on here? 1. Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan (Damien McFerran for Time Extension. July 5, 2026.) The Dreamcast watch looks cool. The other two are a bit too dark (granting the Genesis and the most well-known […]
I collected academic papers about visual novels for at least one ongoing NLJ article project. I figured that the best place to start my reading was “What is a Visual Novel?” This paper, authored by Elin Carstendottir. Janelynn Camingue, and Edward F. Melcer, was published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction on […]
My “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links have been far from “daily” of late. As a result, my link backlog has grown to an ominous size. But today we get back on track. Tomorrow? That is always TBD, but baby steps to giant strides and all. 1. NYC subway riders push AG Letitia James to probe OMNY […]
I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 1991 Nagoya Basho that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach 10 wins. Yokozuna Onosato finished 9-6 and Hoshoryu finished 7-7-1, which was unfortunate for my pre-tournament predictions. 2026 Nagoya Basho Unfortunate For Yokozuna…
I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do an OTA update of KOReader, but it failed in both cases (locked up after hitting update) and trying to launch KOReader would freeze the device. My first idea was to update manually by connecting […]
I was checking my backlinks on Ahrefs when I saw one from the Chicago Sun Times. I do not recall having had a Chicago Sun Times backlink, so I checked to see what it was about. On July 1, 2026, the paper published America 250-inspired letters to the editor. One of these letters, from Harvey […]
A friend sent me a link to an interview in Natiulus titled I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem. I trusted that she sent it to me because she thought based on the headline that it would be a very sober take (or the opposite, either/or). Against my better judgment, […]