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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Reposted Shueisha Makes Global Push With MANGA MILLION, A Manga Platform Available in 100 Languages by SHUEISHA Inc. (Cision PR Newswire) Shueisha Inc., one of the world's leading manga publishers, has launched MANGA MILLION, a new...
Is it safe to say the daily Pook-Emu Bee links are “daily” again with three posts in a row? I did laundry yesterday evening. 1 – Video Game Accounts Can Be Inherited, Chinese Court Rules (Li Xin for Sixth Tone. August 6, 2026.) The game...
Quoted Zantigo (St. Paul, Minnesota) by saundersreed (Atlas Obscura) Founded in Minneapolis 7 years after Taco Bell, Zantigo (named Zapato at that time) had a similar model of rearranging the same array of a few ingredients to fill out a...
Two Pook-Emu Bee daily links in a row? What in the world is going on here? My new (old… 2000 model) atomic G-SHOCK has arrived. 1. Mega Drive, Saturn And Dreamcast Watches Are Coming To Japan (Damien McFerran for Time Extension. July 5,...
Quoted What is a Visual Novel? (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction) A Visual Novel (VN) is a digital narrative focused game that requires interactions where the player must be able to impact the story world or the...
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. I took...
Quoted The Sadness of Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Onosato's Poor Performances and Defeats at the Nagoya Tournament (Sumostats) Excluding withdrawals, it was the first time in 35 years—since the July 1991 Nagoya Tournament with Asahifuji (8-7)...
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...
Quoted Celebrating the nation's strengths, beauty for the big 2-5-0 by Letters to the Editor (Chicago Sun-Times) British Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the rebels after the Battle of Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781. But, critically,...
Quoted I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem by Mark MacNamara (Nautilus) With genial candor, Hart presents himself as a model drug user. 'I am now entering my fifth year as a regular heroin user,' he writes. 'I do not have a...
Replied to Some Highly Subjective Grades for Nagoya 2026 by Josh K (tachiai.org) M7E Kotoeiho 11-4 – Led the basho after 10 days before running into trouble, having adjusted to the higher level of competition at his highest ever rank....
Replied to Nagoya Basho Predictions by Nicholas A. Ferrell (The Emu Café Social) In the spirit of putting my picks on record, I will pick the eight wrestlers who I think will reach double-digit wins [in the Nagoya Basho]. On July 11, I...
Replied to 5 tactics for hitting the Hacker News front page by Herbert Lui (herbertlui.net) A good article can hit the front page with none of these tactics. But executing all of them perfectly won’t save an article that isn’t any good....
Replied to Tadej Pogacar explodes the historic Alpe d'Huez record! (climbing-records.com) 1. 2026: 35:25 Tadej Pogacar 23.38 km/h. 2. 1995: 36:40 Marco Pantani 22.58 km/h. 3. 1997: 36:53 Marco Pantani 22.45 km/h. 4. 1994: 37:15 Marco...
Replied to AI-generated blog post images are not cool any more by Panagiotis Vryonis (blog.vrypan.net) But AI-generated images in blog posts are no longer cool. Everyone does it. And with the exception when an image is a really good fit,...