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
My good friend and New Leaf Journal colleague Victor V. Gurbo once published an article on trying to ascertain whether his cat was deaf. There was no doubt however that his cat cold see. But what about blind cats? I found answers to many...
I read a Basketball Network report in Arkansas college basketball coach John Calipari complaining about the new Name, Image, and Likenesses (“NIL”) rules in college sports leading to a trend in older college basketball players. Mr....
Courtesy of Daily Mail, President Donald Trump on “tiny cars”: They’re very small, they’re really cute, and I said, ‘How would that do in this country?'” President Donald Trump President Trump is pushing for U.S. car manufacturers to...
Liked https://bradbarrish.com/2025/03/19/nicholass-newsletter-link-saving-workflow.html by Brad Barrish (bradbarrish.com) Nicholas’s newsletter link saving workflow is interesting. I’m not currently publishing a newsletter, but it gave...
Bookmarked Rank and File by Robert Minto (Real Life Mag) This essay is about the note-taking app Roam, and the consequences of life conceived as an endless process of annotation. Like other productivity apps, Roam can seem to do the work...
Quoted Taking Blogging Seriously (tomcritchlow.com) Of course blogging isn’t just writing. It’s a way of seeing the world with fresh eyes. Blogging is a mindset. In making the case for taking blogging seriously, Tom Critchlow described...
Replied to Google De-Indexed My Entire Bear Blog and I Don’t Know Why by James Zhan (James Zhan in real life.) A month after I started my first Bear blog at blog.james-zhan.com, my blog was entirely de-indexed by Google for no apparent...
From a December 11, 2025 report by Paul for AlternativeTo: Brave has launched its experimental AI browsing feature in the Brave Nightly development channel. This release targets early adopters and invites user feedback to shape future...
I recently wrote about installing Calibre on Linux the official way. Calibre made news recently for rolling out new AI “features” in the comprehensive open source ebook management program (ironically it was an article about the new AI...
From a December 10, 2025 report in TechCrunch: Amazon says it will allow authors to offer their DRM-free e-books in the EPUB and PDF formats through its self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. Starting on January 20, 2026,...
I keep my ARRIS SURFboard SB8200 modem in my TV cabinet next to my MikroTik hAP ac3 router, which sits between my work desk (two monitors, speakers, mouse, and keyboard) and computer and wireless access point (NETGEAR WAX 202 running...
I have been running the Arch Linux-based EndeavourOS on my desktop workstation since the summer of 2022. I use Calibre to manage my ebook library. I had previously installed Calibre from the main Arch packages repository. While it always...
Quoted Grizzlies' Ja Morant mum on feelings after return from ban (espn.com) They all might have negative value. How can a talented NBA player have “negative” trade value? Because the NBA has a salary cap and various rules making it...
From Reuters on Pope Leo XIV’s recent trip to Beirut: Five years after losing her daughter in a devastating chemical explosion at Beirut’s port, Nelly El Helou said Pope Leo‘s silent prayer at the site on Tuesday was enough to renew...
I added an Ads.txt file to this site (see our Ads.txt file). That may sound odd. This site doesn’t have ads! That is true. But I like collecting text files and I learned how to create a properly-formatted Ads.txt file for an ad-free...