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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Quoted Here’s Why Some Coca-Cola Bottles Have Yellow Caps in the Spring by Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner (foodandwine.com) So, to satisfy millions of soda-loving Jewish people during Passover, Coca-Cola produces an alternate Coke recipe for the holiday, substituting high-fructose corn syrup with cane sugar to sweeten the...
Replied to Nuances by Manuel Moreale (manuelmoreale.com) I realised that the thing that bothered me the most about that stupid tabs discussion was the shallowness. Vertical vs horizontal tabs in a browser is not a deep philosophical topic worth of major explorations, that goes without saying, but you can still...
Today marks the 1957th anniversary of the death-by-suicide of the short-reigning Roman Emperor, Otho. I note this because my longest NLJ article, clocking it at more than 18,000 words, is about Otho. Fortunately, I also published some shorter Otho reading. But Otho aside, it is time for today’s edition of Pook-Emu...
Replied to Adebayo’s 83 and PPG in 60 Point Game Seasons by Nicholas A. Ferrell (The New Leaf Journal) Bam Adebayo’s unexpected 83-point outburst inspired me to look at PPG and points per 36 minutes for NBA players in seasons in which they scored at least 60 in a game. I recently published a new NBA research project...
Replied to Testing suggests Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies per hour by Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica) A new analysis from The New York Times attempted to assess the accuracy of [Google Search's] AI Overviews, finding it’s right 90 percent of the time. The flip side is that 1 in 10 AI answers is wrong, and...
We have a second consecutive warm day in New York City. We also have a third consecutive day of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Seven Myths About the Iran War (Michael Doran for Tablet Magazine. April 13, 2026.) Good start. Hard to choose just seven. 2. Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of...
I did not have much time to engage in my daily “feed reading” this morning. But I will not let that stop me from publishing my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Justice Department Files Case to Revoke U.S. Citizenship of Mastermind Behind Multimillion-Dollar Tax Fraud Scheme (USCIS. April 13, 2026.) The marriage fraud...
Quoted this and that by Kat & Satoshi (katnsatoshiinjapan.blogspot.com) red kiwi...the earlier ones we ate were greener and more sour, these were sweet. love the color I learned two things from Kat & Satoshi’s April 6, 2026 post on Our Adventures in Japan (see the first). The post featured four photos. The last of...
Quoted this and that by Kat & Satoshi (katnsatoshiinjapan.blogspot.com) bon bon drop stickers or seals as the Japanese call them are all the rage they are plastic and 3D...made me smile to see the younger generations trading stickers Back in Newsletter Leaf Journal 269, I linked to an article about Pokémon card...
Quoted Just Want Links in Google Search Results Instead of AI Overviews? Here's How to Do It by Peter Butler (CNET) To add a 'verbatim' restriction to your Web filter shortcut, append the attribute "&tbs=li:1" to the end of your custom search URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14&tbs=li:1 I read read a good...
There were no Pook-Emu Bee links on Saturday because it was newsletter day (22 links in issue 275!). There were no Pook-Emu Bee links on Sunday because I failed. But today is Monday. Monday is a fun day. I will not fail. In fact, I may even have some bonus links (either to make up for yesterday or to keep my link...
Quoted Nothing to Carp About by Dan Lewis (nowiknow.com) As the Los Angeles Times reported early that year, there’s no reason why Asian carp can’t be farmed and served to humans; one fishery manager called it a “tasty, fleshy fish” whose reputation as a bad meal isn’t deserved. It’s common in Vietnamese dishes and...
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