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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-11-26

After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled daily links. Speech 1 | Foul Call: New York Times Calls for Canceling Sophie Cunningham in The Athletic (Jonathan Turley. Oct. 11, 2026.) I largely agree with Mr. Turley. But more material to Ms. Cunningham's immediate future career prospects, I suspect...

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Interpreting Trackback Spam on NLJ

I receive remarkable amounts of comment spam on The New Leaf Journal's Guestbook page, but I seldom receive pingback/trackback spam. For that reason, I took note when my first 2D Japanese girl hair color study from back in 2021 received not one, but two spam trackback links. While I could have simply sent them to...

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Re-Filling My Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser 3

I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my second refill of Mr. Gingerbread Man back in July. Today, it was time for re-fill three. I had some peppermint castile soap for the job, but I wanted to dilute it. In order to know how...

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Issue 300 of The Newsletter Leaf Journal

I mailed the 300th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal earlier this afternoon. I launched the newsletter back in July 2020 as a companion to The New Leaf Journal. While it still serves the purpose of recapping the week that was at The New Leaf Journal and now The Emu Café Social, it has evolved...

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New NLJ Article: 86 Days Until Christmas

On October 1, 2026, I (being N.A. Ferrell) published a new article on The New Leaf Journal titled 86 Days Until Christmas: Seen in Carroll Gardens. On September 29, I had come across an inflatable Christmas countdown clock on the Carroll Gardens side of Degraw Street (Degraw is the border between Cobble Hill and Carroll...

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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-02-26

October begins two-for-two with Pook-Emu Bee Links before our regularly scheduled Saturday off-day for the Newsletter Leaf Journal. I think they're hoping you get the hint 1 | Japan announces new permanent residency guidelines, foreigners must earn more than average Japanese person (Casey Baseel for SoraNews24. Oct. 1, 2026.) The earning threshold shouldn't be too...

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A Townhouse For Sale in Brooklyn Heights

I came across an article about a "fully restored 1840s Brooklyn Heights townhouse" available for the low price of $12.75 million. It looks nice. But the artcile does leave out some potentially important notes about its location. It is in Brooklyn Heights, unlike Old Fulton Street. Beginning at Hicks Street, Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights...

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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 10-01-26

Let us start October off on the right foot with an exciting new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee Links. Oh no, whatever will I do? 1 | Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots (Sarah Perez for TechCrunch. Sep. 30, 2026.) One may think that your favorite (I...

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Toys R Us Leaving Japan After 35 Years

Back in the 90s and very early 2000s, most of my video games came from Toys 'R Us. See, for example, my discussion in Nintendo 64 at 30 and My N64 Memories (which includes a photo of my Toys 'R Us-sourced copy of Mario Party) and EGM’s 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke (referencing the...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-30-26

Time for the Sepender edition of our regularly scheduled Pook-Emu Bee Links. Subway Stories 1 | These salvaged relics in a Brooklyn subway station are the ghostly remains of old New York buildings (Ephemeral New York. Sep. 28, 2026.) I wouldn't call this being restored to their former glory, but it's something. 2 | MTA...

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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-29-26

You may wonder whether I sometimes go a week or so (a week in this case) without publishing Pook-Emu Bee links because I lack links. Not so. I collect links every day. That makes getting back to Pook-Emu Bee all the more urgent. An out-of-control link backlog is a scary thing. AI (or SI?) and...

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I have played and reviewed many little-known and niche visual novels. But I am also familiar with some of the classics. For example, I am a fan of the much-esteemed Higurashi: When They Cry series, which I was in the process of completing in the early days of The New Leaf Journal. Since completing the...

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