<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a Catholic News Agency report (May 2, 2023): A Utah bill that is designed to prevent minors from accessing pornography […]
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An Essay on Productivity, Production, and Productive Leisure
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A Second Look at the April New York City Flyover
The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations
Implementing Article Series With WP Post Series
Introducing the 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 136th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I published a good number of new articles last week. Below, I share links to our newest posts, links from around the web, and other news and notes.
Table of contents
Leaves from the week that was
Leaves from around the web
The Old Leaf Journal
Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
News leaf journal
Notable leaf journal
Taking leaf
Leaves from the week that was
I published four regular articles and six short-form posts since mailing Newsletter 135.
Regular articles
Installing GrapheneOS on a Google Pixel 6a…]]></summary>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Good ending theme for ep 6 of Raeliana]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion is a solid, currently-airing anime, based on a Korean novel. I have enjoyed […]
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Familiar song in Angel Next Door anime
The Best Anime Series of 2021
The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime
Visual Novel Review: "Summer, Cicadas, and the Girl"
Visual Novel Analysis - Shooting Star Hill]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I read a Nintendo Life survey of the best Nintendo controllers. I noted while reading that I had owned and used every controller except one. Somewhat improbably, the "one" is the Wii U Pro Controller, but not the Virtual Boy or NES (101) controllers. Go figure. Having determined that I have the relevant experience to weigh in, I offered my own Nintendo controller takes, but separated into categories... best non-joystick controller (SNES); best joystick controller (GCN/Switch Pro), and best joystick (N64).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Having read about e-ink monitors for phones, I test using my PocketBook InkPad Color as a color e-ink monitor for my LineageOS phone.
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Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones
The ideal phone, e-ink and QWERTY
The Thin Digital Line Between "Buy" and "Rent"
Transferring Photos From My BlackBerry Classic Using KDE…
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On April 22, 2023, Nintendo Life published the results of a reader survey ranking the best Nintendo controllers. The results were […]
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Mario Party's Joystick-Wrecking Rotation Games
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Nintendo Power's 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank
On Nintendo's Pro-User Cartridge-First Strategy
The Sega Dreamcast Controller Joystick
Lateral thinking to extend game console life-cycles
EGM's 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[An article on a scene from Thornton Wilder's classic 1937 play, Our Town, wherein a girl asks her mother "Am I Pretty?" After pressing her mother to give a "serious" answer, her mother responds "You're pretty enough for all normal purposes."
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Let me tell you a story about how the news that Ms.Martha Stewart will be one of the cover models for the 2023 SI Swimsuit Issue reminded me of a story from my high school in 2007.
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Hair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan
Takaki's Memories in 5 Centimeters Per Second
What Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection.
The July 4 Death of James Monroe
At Summer's End - Visual Novel Review
The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Notes on Kirby’s friends in Dreamland 2]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a report on the Nintendo Switch Virtual Console release of Kirby’s Dreamland 2, which was originally released for the Game […]
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Three years to the day, I published a section introduction and something of a statement of intent for the more thoughtful essays at The New Leaf Journal: "Welcome to The Emu Café."
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[An essay which describes personal blogs as the soul of the web leads me to consider personal blogs as the centerpiece of a social web.
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Feeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading
A Note on Seeing From Along the Ray
The New Leaf Journal Twitter
A Walk Across the Hamilton Avenue Footbridge]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[People who follow me on my main project, The New Leaf Journal, will know that I follow the latest anime series (the ones I can tolerate, at least). I published year-in-review pieces for 2021 and 2022 with my top-six rankings.
2021 Review
2022 Review
I published my 2022 review in a timely manner in January 2023. However, I published my 2021 review in April 2022. Fresh off my very late 2021 review, I published a short Leaflet post on April 26, 2022, offering my initial impressions of the first quarter and a third of anime in 2022. I quote from my Leaflet:
My clear early-frontrunner for anime of the year in 2022 is the excellent third and final season of Teasing Master Takagi-san. The first two seasons were good fun, but neither was quite anime of the year caliber (although the second season …]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal CXXXV. I mailed the original on Saturday, May 13, 2023. This newsletter […]
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New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 135th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.
Our Mother’s Day-Eve newsletter brings links to our newest posts, some New Leaf Journal news, and your assortment of links from around the web.
Table of contents
Leaves from the week that was
Leaves from around the web
The Old Leaf Journal
Most-turned leaves of the newsletter week
News leaf journal
Notable leaf journal
Taking leaf
Leaves from the week that was
I published four regular articles since mailing Newsletter 134.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My article on the origin of Mother's Day, originally envisioned by Anna Jarvis in 1907-08 as a non-commercial occasion. I linked to original newspaper reports of the first Mother's Day commemorations in the United States and in Australia.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Introducing the newest member of The New Leaf Journal family: An Osmosfeed-powered aggregator called New Leaf Journal Feeds.
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Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ
Introducing Leaflets Microposts and Activity Stream
History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines
The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review
Reviewing Koko Analytics: A Simple Privacy-Friendly…
The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100
Save the Date - Visual Novel Review
The Questionable NYC Mayoral Campaign About Page of Maya…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Mr.Jeff Starr, the WordPress developer behind the Wutsearch Search Engine launchpad and a couple of plugins that we use at The […]
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Wholesale category reassessment
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The Quarantine Sessions: Covering The Beatles]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Advanced Custom Fields is one of the most-used WordPress plugins. It has security vulnerabilities from time to time like many other […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to thesyndicated 134th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal. I threw down the gauntlet with our May 6 mailing (see […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Another photo from my spring 2007 set -- two ducks standing in the drizzle at New York City's Brooklyn Botanic Garden.<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Published three years to the day -- my NLJ colleague, Victor V. Gurbo, wrote about the history of Love Henry, a classic folk ballad. In addition to writing about the history, he included a link to his Love Henry rendition with fellow Brooklyn NYC musician, Mark Caserta.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 134th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.
I hoped to welcome May with style, but I have been a bit busy this week with work-work and behind-the-scenes New Leaf Journal work. But I do have some interesting articles, links from around the web, and news and notes to share in this week’s edition of your favorite (I hope…) weekly newsletter.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I reviewed a niche search tool called Peekier in February 2022. Peekier, like many "alternative" search, was mostly a Bing front-end. However, it came with a strong, straightforward privacy policy (albeit with a bit of Cloudflare required .js to run) and a unique way of presenting search results as preview thumbnails. However, I discovered the other day that Peekier is no more -- its URL redirects to Kagi Search as of late February. I took a look at the demise of Peekier.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My good friend and New Leaf Journal colleague, Victor V. Gurbo, came to visit today. We are slowly playing through Danganronpa […]
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Bird in Review 〜 Australian Grass Parakeet
Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)
NLJ Recommendations From Around the Web IV
The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A collection of 2021 duck and duckling rescue stories from around the web (storm drains appear to be a great struggle for ducklings).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I run the EndeavourOS operating system with the XFCE desktop environment on my main desktop. After discovering Ulauncher while installing Bodhi […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My December 1, 2010 (according to the file date) attempt to draw a "truth tree" turned into a mushroom cloud (but it really is supposed to be a tree).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I reviewed a niche search engine (or more aptly put, Bing front-end) called Peekier in February 2022. My Peekier review turned out to be a relatively successful post (by The New Leaf Journal's standards). The last time I had used Peekier before May 2, 2023, was in mid-January of 2023. This is because I have generally refrained from using Bing-based search after Bing arbitrarily blacklisted my project and removed it from its index. I ran a search through Peekier on May 2 as part of my day job working on U.S. immigration law research. My Peekier search unexpectedly redirected to the home page for Kagi Search. After determining that Peekier was indeed dead, I wrote an article on Peekier's demise and then updated my Peekier review to note that the charming little search tool is no more. While I am not certain of the circumstances of Peekier's downfall or why it now redirects to Kagi Search, the last Internet Archive capture of Peekier's home page came on February 19, 2023. The next capture on February 26, 2023, shows the Kagi Search redirect was in place.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Peekier search tool, once reviewed by The New Leaf Journal, is no more (or so the fact it redirects to Kagi suggests).
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Adding custom search shortcut for Wayback Machine]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Thunderbird Available as uBlock Origin Add-on]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[As of uBlock Origin version 1.49.2, you can now install the extension for Mozilla Thunderbird (see release version). The extension page on Thunderbird Add-ons states that it works with Thunderbird version 91.0 and higher. I use uBlock Origin with Firefox and I also use Thunderbird as my desktop email client (see my article on using Thunderbird with DecSync). I installed uBlock Origin on Thunderbird and restored my settings from my set-up on Firefox. The installation and export worked perfectly, but the non-uBlock Origin filter lists that I have enabled did not update (I am not sure if that is a general issue, but not important in my case). Consider this a PSA for Thunderbird users. If you want an aesthetic Thunderbird set-up, see my short post on the Two Little Birds theme.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[uBlock Origin is now available as a Thunderbird Add-on (as of version 1.49.2). I use Thunderbird, so I installed the Add-on and imported by uBO settings from my Firefox set-up. Everything worked but for one point -- the non-uBlock Origin blocklists are not updating for me in Thunderbird (not an issue for me, but worth noting -- have not looked into why yet).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[As of uBlock Origin version 1.49.2, you can now install the extension for Mozilla Thunderbird (see release version). The extension page […]
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Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook]]></summary>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[My photo of a rose at New York City's Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I took this photo on March 27, 2007, with my Nikon D40 DLSR camera (an older one from the collection).
I did not understand the value of keeping my own data back in 2007 (I was in high school way back when). I uploaded those photos to Picasa (dating myself) and my only copies were on Google Photos (I remember when Picasa transmogrified). I did Google Takeout before I cleared my photo accounts, but my 2007 photos were low res. Fortunately, I have Upscayl as a free and open source solution for restoring my low-res Google'd photos to something resembling their former glory.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My photo of a rose at New York City's Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I took this photo on March 27, 2007, with my Nikon D40 DLSR camera (an older one from the collection).<br />
I did not understand the value of keeping my own data back in 2007 (I was in high school way back when). I uploaded those photos to Picasa (dating myself) and my only copies were on Google Photos (I remember when Picasa transmogrified). I did Google Takeout before I cleared my photo accounts, but my 2007 photos were low res. Fortunately, I have Upscayl as a free and open source solution for restoring my low-res Google'd photos to something resembling their former glory.<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A post by blogger/webmaster Dariusz Więckiewicz about his site being arbitrarily banned by Bing inspired me to share our own Bing […]
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Removing pages from Yandex Turbo
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A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a report in Grist: Typically, when consumer tech companies reach out to lawmakers concerning right-to-repair bills — which seek to […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My 2007 photo of a rose at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I use Nomacs as my photo viewer on all of my Linux computers. I like it because it is easy to manage and make light edits to photos. I resize photos (usually such that the largest dimension is 800 px) for publication in The New Leaf Journal. Nomacs provides a side-by-side screen of the original and new photo in the save dialogue. Something about this one...
(Note: I only had an 800 px version of this, so I used Upscayl to make it bigger for Pixelfed, which may make the text look a little off.)
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I use Nomacs as my photo viewer on all of my Linux computers. I like it because it is easy to manage and make light edits to photos. I resize photos (usually such that the largest dimension is 800 px) for publication in The New Leaf Journal. Nomacs provides a side-by-side screen of the original and new photo in the save dialogue. Something about this one...<br />
<br />
(Note: I only had an 800 px version of this, so I used Upscayl to make it bigger for Pixelfed, which may make the text look a little off.)<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My three photos of an April 28, 2020 Blue Angels-Thunderbird joint-flyover of New York City, taken from Columbia Street Waterfront District in Brooklyn, NY. In light of the fact that my only camera was my BlackBerry Classic, the photos were a bit better than I would have expected under the circumstances.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Brave’s news announcement: Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index. We’ve removed […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the (syndicated) version of the 133rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal. I (e)mailed the flagship edition of the […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Building a Fairy Kingdom in Britain (JSTOR Daily): In the late sixteenth century, people across Britain became obsessed with fairies, […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 133rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.
April 27 marked the third birthday of The New Leaf Journal. I made sure that we had plenty of new articles for our birthday week. Below, you will find links to our newest articles along with twelve links from around the web and other news and notes.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have watched the first few episodes of a currently airing anime series called My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999. While I have not been impressed thus far, it did inspire an article. The first episode begins with the viewpoint protagonist, Akane, in the dumps after her boyfriend left her for another woman he met in an online game that he played with Akane. There is a scene where Akane opens up her laptop to log into the game. When she turns it on, I noticed a problem.
Her relationship with her cad of an ex-boyfriend may be over, but her toxic relationship with Windows continues. I suggest she consider a new relationship with Linux.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have published two posts hear on Bear Blog about my main website project, The New Leaf Journal, having been blacklisted by Bing.
De-indexed from Bing (1.17.23)
Bing de-indexing update (1.18.23)
The Bing blacklisting not only persists, but has also become worse. I discovered in the Bing Webmaster Console that all of The New Leaf Journal's pages had been purged from Bing's index.
I subscribe to an RSS feed for Hacker News Page 1 in my feed reader. I saw an article titled Bing Jail a few days ago which caught my attention. In that post, a webmaster described his Bing blacklisting experience. I found that it was almost identical to my experience, right down to his site having been blacklisted in January 2023 and his pages being removed from Bing's index in March. He noted that several other …]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On using Syncthing to sync my modded Umineko When They Cry game files and save directory between my main computer, a mini PC I use with my TV, and an always on Syncthing device.
<title type="html"><![CDATA[A wet duck standing on Pier 5 of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The duck was drying in the Sun. Note the very pretty dark blue/purple feather on its wing. The duck made a good photo subject because it did not pay its surroundings any mind as it calmly stood in place. A small Park vehicle (essentially a golf cart) drove by about 3 feet from the duck and our avian friend did not flinch.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A wet duck standing on Pier 5 of Brooklyn Bridge Park. The duck was drying in the Sun. Note the very pretty dark blue/purple feather on its wing. The duck made a good photo subject because it did not pay its surroundings any mind as it calmly stood in place. A small Park vehicle (essentially a golf cart) drove by about 3 feet from the duck and our avian friend did not flinch.<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[While we are The New Leaf Journal, our focus on perennially virid content leads us to appreciate trees and leaves of […]
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[PocketBook InkPad Color 2 brings a faster processor, IPX8 rating, and more storage (7.8 inch eReader) - Liliputing]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[For example, the older model had a 1 GHz dual-core processor, while the new version has a 1.8 GHz quad-core chip. Since the company is tight-lipped about exactlywhichprocessors are powering these devices, it’s hard to make an apples-to-apples comparison, but it sure sounds like the new model should be a bit more responsive.Both models have just 1GB of RAM, but the original InkPad Color had just 16GB of built-in storage, while the new model has twice as much. That said, it seems like the company might have omitted one feature when building the new model: there’s no longer a microSD card reader.
I have the original PocketBook InkPad color and I generally like it. Most of the improvements in V2 would be welcome (albeit well short of prompting me to upgrade), but dropping the microSD card slot is a bad move. The article suggests that this may have been done to increase the tablet's water resistance, but I will take the SD card over being able to submerge my e-reader in 2 meters of water.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The New Leaf Journal was blacklisted from appearing in Bing's search results on January 14 and then fully removed from Bing's index in March. The reasons for our blacklisting/de-indexing appear to be unknown to every other search engine with its own index, including Google, Brave, Mojeek, Yandex, Seznam, InfoTiger, and Marginalia... only Bing. I read an article by a different webmaster who described almost identical Bing problems. That post inspired me to chronicle our ongoing Bing ban. (Note: The worst effect has not been Bing itself, but losing DuckDuckGo, from which we received many more referrals than Bing).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We celebrate our humble online writing magazine's third birthday with a curated selection of article recommendations based on our most-read content from our first three years.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the (syndicated) version of Newsletter Leaf Journal issue 132. We mailed the original newsletter on Saturday, April 22, 2023. […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I came across a very dry Christmas Tree on the sidewalk in APRIL 2021. While moving on from a Christmas Tree can be a pain, I thought that April seemed a bit excessive even by procrastination standards.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a report by Mr. Brad Matthews for the Washington Times: Stanley Black & Decker has recalled 2.2 million DeWalt, Stanley, […]
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Understanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[A heartbroken anime girl is recovering from her jerk boyfriend breaking up with her to be with another woman. But what if I told you she needs to end her toxic relationship with Windows?
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