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 Toothpaste Expiration Dates by Nicholas A. Ferrell (The New Leaf Journal) How am I going to eat all this toothpaste before it expires? This is the 59th entry in Nicholas A. Ferrell’s long-running Justin and Justina dialogue series. Inspired by a true story (N.A. Ferrell, who is me writing in the third person,...
For once I’m not too busy today. But even if I were busy, I would still publish the newest edition of Pook-Emu Bee. 1. Discover more of the Fediverse with tags.pub (Matthias Pfefferle at ActivityPub for WordPress. April 2, 2026.) Done! 2. Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to Flash Shortage...
Today is April 1. It is both April Fools and the first day of Passover (happy Passover to any Jewish readers!). I do not have a new April Fools joke prepared, but maybe there will be something April Fools-related in this edition of Pook-Emu Bee, Links from around the web 1. Israel halts all defence purchases from...
Quoted The Old Internet is Still Here by Tyler Gaw (tylergaw.com) There’s a frequent lament of missing the “old” Internet. It’s different for every person that thinks it, but it’s usually a feeling of loss for things like personal websites, blogs, RSS feeds, quirky sites for special interests and hobbies, forums,...
Quoted Latest Windows 11 update is broken, refuses to install — Microsoft pulls latest update over missing files error by Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware) Microsoft pushed the KB5079391 non-security update on March 26, 2026, featuring 'production-quality' improvements, which means it's part of the efforts to make the...
They say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That is true in terms of whether (looks nice out), but not in terms of your regularly-scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. OneTaste ‘orgasm cult’ boss got surprising letters of support – including from CNN personality (Ben Kochman for the New York Post....
Replied to Re; Respond, Don’t Create by Herbert Lui (herbertlui.net) For many of us writing online, finding something worth saying is half the battle. And yet, this problem runs counter to one strategy to making ourselves heard: speak loudly and frequently. VaynerMedia CEO Gary Vaynerchuk, a successful user of such...
Replied to Why I ditched Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for my blog by Maddy Miller (madelinemiller.dev) Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, is a web technology championed by Google to improve the browsing experience on mobile devices. Throughout this article, I'll outline a few of the issues that led me to ditch AMP....
I have work today, but let us start the work week with a new set of Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. New Apple Silicon M4 & M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays (Sam McLeod. March 29, 2026.) As a Linux man, I am blown away by how advanced Macs are. They’re already dropping support for legacy 4K. 2. ‘There Are a Lot of...
Favorited Daily News Stuff 29 March 2026 by Pixy Misa (ai.mee.nu) That would be bad for OpenAI which is 100% bubble and good for Apple which is close to 0% bubble. As for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, they'll survive either way, and Anthropic and xAI will likely do fine on a smaller scale than they had hoped....
There was no Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday because it was newsletter day. But I am back early this Sunday morning (before I go to bed) with the first edition of the Pook-Emu Bee for the new week. 1. The Bird of Paradise you want is NOT the best one to grow in your house (Alex Calamia for News 12 Brooklyn. March 18,...
Replied to Notable links: March 27, 2026 by Ben Werdmuller (werd.io) For the record, my posts aren’t written or conceived with an LLM, although I know an increasing number of people who use one to write a first draft and then edit. I’m not a fan. The whole point of the web — its beauty — is that it’s unrelentingly...
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