The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café Social
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The Emu Café Social is a social-publishing site powered by WordPress. Members will be able to use the site to post about what interests them and discuss their external projects. While the site is conducive to short-to-medium-length posts, it also accommodates longer-form writing. By advertising feeds and user profiles, it will be easy for visitors to follow individual writers or to follow the project as a whole. In general, members of the site can and will post about subjects of interest to them.
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Replied to Using the Xteink X4, a minimalist e-reader by an author (Schemascape) I now find myself seeking out modern DRM-free e-books from more enlightened publishers. Here are some sources: For (mostly old) public domain works:...
It has been 12 days since I last published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links due to some combination of being busy and not feeling my best. Both of those blockers exist today, but I have time to squeeze in a new edition. I photographed this bee...
Replied to Journal Prompt July by Laura Cameron (The Well-Apportioned Desk) I found a great list of July journal prompts over at BaronFig from 2024. The thing I love about this list is that there are 50 prompts to choose from ... A few...
Replied to Second Ship Sinks in Red Hook by Nick Bello (South Brooklyn History) Victory Chimes, a historic schooner beloved in the state of Maine and commemorated in a 2003 quarter, sank in Red Hook over the weekend. Victory Chimes...
Replied to 2026 Nagoya basho predictions! The Isegahama takeover begins by Tim Edwards (Sumo Stomp!) My prediction for the 2026 Nagoya basho is a play-off between Hōshōryū and Atamifuji. If that comes to fruition, I think it’s a toss up...
I decided to step out to see if I could see the 4th of July fireworks from a cross-street in Brooklyn Heights. I took this video from Pierrepont and Willow Streets and then converted it into a gif using the same procedure I described for...
Replied to I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware by Marius (マリウス) For its first year or so, the Nexus 5 was actually a likeable phone ... Then the hardware started giving up. The battery, which had been mediocre to begin with, became...
Replied to You Don't Need the DuckDuckGo noai Subdomain by Chris Wiegman (chriswiegman.com) There’s a lot of hype about accessing DuckDuckGo via its “noai” subdomain. It works, but there’s a better way. Instead of using a special domain...
Replied to JulyReply 2026, a blog connecting month by Robert Birming (Robert Birming) June is done and Junited 2026 wrapped up. Now it's time for JulyReply, the third edition of this blog connecting event where bloggers reply to each...
Quoted World Cup debrands mega stadiums by Matty Merritt (Morning Brew) It’s the first day of the World Cup, and in addition to sporting fresh new grass fields and extra tall beer cans, 11 stadiums across the US have scrubbed thousands...
Replied to [No title] by Rodrigo Ghedin (Manual do Usuário) Hot take: if you feel comfortable with Markdown, you don’t need an editor that displays the formatting. Any plain text editor will do. The rest is just fluff. Rodrigo Ghedin...
I have not published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links since June 23. But today is the start of a new month. Let us turn over a new leaf in July with the Pook-Emu Bee. I took this photograph in Brooklyn Bridge Park on the morning of July 1,...
Favorited https://jonathanturley.org/2026/06/28/white-time-dutch-professor-argues-that-time-itself-is-racist/ by Jonathan Turley (Jonathan Turley) These authors largely cite each other with little attention to countervailing viewpoints....
Liked Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling” by Cal Newport (Cal Newport) In my op-ed. I ask the leading AI labs to stop pretending they’re the reluctant stewards of an inevitable technology, and instead act like normal consumer...
Liked Shiki (Anime Review) by Cabbage (Cabbage Sorter) I had Shiki on hold since 2013 ... When I first watched it, I couldn't get past the hair, it was too much. It wasn't just the hairstyles though, I clearly remember feeling...