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.
Latest Posts
Replied to Light Flip is a flip phone with minimalist design and features (plus a keypad and T9 predictive text) by Brad Linder (Liliputing) The Light Flip is an upcoming cellphone that looks like an artifact from an alternate timeline...
Replied to Cup Noodle unveils first-ever cold-water instant ramen in Japan by Oona McGee (soranews24.com) The new noodles were in development for five years, with Nissin adopting a new noodle-making technology that allows the noodles to...
Replied to AIM-ing For a More Open Platform Than Discord by Tyler August (hackaday.com) Do you remember AIM? It may [surprise] you to hear that AOL’s instant [messenger] was actually supported all the way up to 2017... Hackaday published...
Replied to An Opinionated Guide to Ranking Ethical NBA Championships in the 21st Century by Russell Samora (The Pudding) I believe there have only been five truly ethical NBA champions in the last 25 years: teams that don’t need an...
Two consecutive editions of Pook-Emu Bee daily links? What in the world is going on here? Seen here is the Brooklyn Bridge Park Marina on July 13, 2026. I lined the American Flags, so I took a couple of photos. To the left you see...
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...