https://yuechan.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/slightly-disturbing-yet-very-nice/ (totally missed the point of Hallucinate but fair on Flanca)
http://cloverzero00.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-28.html (liked and understood Hallucinate but had some trouble with Flanca)
https://www.misanthropop.com/blog/2017/10/7/october-terror-story-07-the-world-to-reverse (Positive review with extra download link from friend of translator)
https://vndb.org/t3378 (Surprised the ending of Hallucinate caused so much confusion... but still working through Flanca myself)
<title type="html"><![CDATA[ONScripter-EN issue. It seems that old al|together games with MIDI sound do not have working sound w...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/17</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/17"/>
<updated>2023-06-19T02:04:12.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[ONScripter-EN issue. It seems that old al|together games with MIDI sound do not have working sound with my set-up and the 2023 ONScripter-EN builds. They do work with the 2011 version with two exceptions.
Working with 2011: Night of the Forget-Me-Nots, Visions from the Other Side
Working with neither: Wanderers in the Sky (glitchy sound at title, the nothing), The World to Reverse -- Hallucinate (no music on Linux with any version, does work with original Windows .exe and Fluidsynth on top of WINE)
Will test My Black Cat shortly since I recall that one also has a MIDI requirement and then file an issue report on GitHub. Off the top of my head, I think he other al|together games with MIDI issues were all KiriKiri.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Anime News Network: The 12th episode for the television anime of Norio Sakurai’s The Dangers in My Heart (Boku no […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[How do you organize all of the things you read?
My system is actually pretty simple, and it relies on organizing myregular reads, quick digesting and sortingone-off articles, and sometimes doingextensive note-taking with online apps.
I agree that reading is a key part of writing.]]></summary>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Several of the spring 2023 anime season series have picked up in their second halves since I [expres...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/16</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/16"/>
<updated>2023-06-18T04:16:51.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Several of the spring 2023 anime season series have picked up in their second halves since I expressed by concerns at the half-way point that the first half of 2023 was looking bleak. One of the most interesting (and arguably the best) series of the season is Oshi no Ko, which has achieved great popularity. The series focuses on the entertainment industry in Japan, often in a gritty way. It has impressive production values, but the overall product is inconsistent. One thing it has not failed at is hitting the big moments though. The ends of episodes 1, 7, and 9 are three of the most striking moments of anime in 2023 thus far. 9 was particularly impressive. It was not a surprise when we learned that Kana Arima is a legitimately good singer, but the set-up of her music video and the reactions of her group mates was well-done enough to earn some applause. Of course, unlike my previous three anime series of the year, Oregairu S3, SSSS.Dynazenon, and Teasting Master Takagi-san S3, Oshi no Ko has not put together an entire episode up to the standard of its best scenes. But it is making me think about how much a single scene can carry an episode or how a series of stand-out scenes can define a series. This idea needs more work. It will turn into an article at some point.
#OshiNoKo #anime #anime2023]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Emu Café Memos</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Cloudflare considered harmful]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Where such denial-of-service conditions occur, Cloudflare provides a bizarre
“one more step” page inviting the visitor to complete a reCAPTCHA to access the
site. Cloudflare claims that this is based on IP reputation, which constitutes
a fallacious equivocation of IPs and users which has been found to be highly
detrimental to Tor users in terms of the browseability of the web.
This is a good critique of Cloudflare CAPTCHAs. They are especially annoying when using a VPN (I use Mullvad) or unusual browser configurations. I wrote about how the Wayback Machine provides a good end-around the CAPTCHA deluge for pages which have been captured.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 140th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. Today’s edition comes a bit late because I was tired last night (I am definitely not writing this on Saturday afternoon). But it will be a full newsletter all the same, packed to the brim with the sort of content one would expect to find in a Newsletter Leaf Journal composed by New Leaf Journal editor Nicholas A. Ferrell on his waterproof keyboard.
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 139. I also pu…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I received a sort of real response from Bing Webmaster support after sending my latest inquiry (we have to be close to 10 now). Automated, yes, but a support number and inviting me to respond to the thread if I have updates. This is good because I'm coming close to blocking Bingbot in robots.txt. Just know I'm doing all of this out of the goodness of my heart for the DuckDuckGo/Ecosia/Qwant crowd out there.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My Nintendo Switch Pro Controller died. My favorite game controller ever is the Dreamcast, so I decided to be creative and get a GuilKit KingKong 2 Pro with a Hall Effect joystick to rekindle the magic. It came in very nice packaging and the joystick feels nice. Will test it... soon.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I like peanut butter sandwiches on cinnamon raisin bread. I leave unsalted peanuts and raisins. I do not have cinnamon raisin […]
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Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)
ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review
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The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[For those who are interested, it can be downloaded and played for free from the official source. It is a bit finicky to run. It requires a Japanese language environment. It also needs Japanese fonts or things won't display correctly (the default fonts I installed from the AUR did not work well here). I ran it on top of WINE without any problems after the initial configuration. Unlike most of the al|together translations, there is no native Linux version (this one was written in KiriKiri instead of ONScripter-EN).
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I reviewed a 2006 translation of a 2004 Japanese freeware visual novel called Collage last week. This one earns my clear recommendation. It is a story covering a couple of weeks in modern Japan told from the perspective of three adults (probably in the age 28-30 range). Over the course of the story, we see how the lives of the characters are more connected than they seem. The translation reads very well and the story is clever. I also appreciated the game's visual flair and soundtrack, both of which reminded me a bit of Persona 3.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I noticed that crawlers sometimes look for an ads.txt file on The New Leaf Journal. I felt bad about them finding our 404 page instead of the information they were seeking. Not wanting to leave their bot hearts unfulfilled, I remedied the issue.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Jokic joins Antetokounmpo, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players born overseas to take home the Finals award.
Tim Duncan was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands, so I am not sure how "overseas" is being defined here.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Using an ATOM feed and feed reader to stay abreast of the latest updates to a WordPress spam comment blacklist without using a plugin.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I just had an issue printing from my Brother printer (wi-fi connection) from my main workstation running EndeavourOS. I resolved the issue cleanly with the EndeavourOS Wiki and then detailed the steps with a link to the relevant section in my new Memos instance.
https://memos.emucafe.org/m/11
#endeavouros #arch #printers]]></summary>
<author>
<name>N.A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I was unable to print using my Brother printer from my EndeavourOS workstation. I resolved the issue...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/11</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/11"/>
<updated>2023-06-12T17:39:28.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was unable to print using my Brother printer from my EndeavourOS workstation. I resolved the issue by following these steps on the EndeavourOS Wiki:
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I used @jeremy 's Nostr Verify plugin for WordPress to verify my new Nostr profile, and explained the process in a short article. I was impressed with how quickly everything fell into place. This is well worth a look if you run a self-hosted WordPress site.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 139. After I was late in making my Monday syndication target for […]
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Enter difference between yay and dnf]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I run the Arch Linux-based EndeavourOS distribution on my main workstation. My primary package managers are pacman (for the regular Arch […]
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[My current visual novel review project, *The Letter*, is the 2008 translation of a 2007 Japanese vis...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/10</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/10"/>
<updated>2023-06-12T03:55:55.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My current visual novel review project, The Letter, is the 2008 translation of a 2007 Japanese visual novel called Tegami. Like most of the al|together translation projects visual novels, Tegami was written in NScripter. However, the 2007 release was its second release. The first version was created with Yuuki! Novel. I looked up Yuuki! Novel and found a couple of interesting resources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160208042342/http://freett.com/yuukiex/yuukinovel.html (Last capture of official website, download links still work)
I downloaded the latest release of Yuuki! Novel (latest being from 2005) and an English-language translation of some of its docs. File away for a future project.
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I previously noted that I could not start my local Radicale-DecSync server and that switching from t...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/8</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/8"/>
<updated>2023-06-11T20:02:44.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I previously noted that I could not start my local Radicale-DecSync server and that switching from the AUR package to the PyPi package resolved the issue.
However, I ran into the following error today when I tried to launch the local server:
[2023-06-11 15:56:14 -0400] [2661] [CRITICAL] An exception occurred during server startup: Failed to load storage module 'radicale_storage_decsync': libcrypt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Solution from AUR libdecsync package: Install libxcrypt-compat
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I wanted to add pingback support to WordPress pages so I could enable Webmentions on my new Guestbook. After a bit of searching, I extrapolated the correct functions.php snippet from a guide for a different point and added the functionality to pages without breaking my site.
<title type="html"><![CDATA[I started manually maintaining a list of stopwords for WordPress comments after opening our Guestboo...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/7</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/7"/>
<updated>2023-06-11T16:10:14.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I started manually maintaining a list of stopwords for WordPress comments after opening our Guestbook. I figured that I could handle it manually instead of using a plugin. The approach was showing some results after two days, but it occurred to me that I could find a bigger stopword list.
I found this big one on GitHub and copied it into my install. The repo notes that there are plugins for keeping it up-to-date, but I thought of a better idea. After some clicking around, I found the atom feed for updates to the blocklist text file. I added it to mfeed, a Firefox extension I use to keep track of feeds for repo and software updates. Now I will not only be able to keep my stopwords list up to date, but I also have a NLJ topic on keeping the list up to date without a plugin.
#wordpress #feeds #newleafjournal]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Emu Café Memos</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Thoughts on anime episodes I watched yesterday:]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/6</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/6"/>
<updated>2023-06-11T16:06:42.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html">< of [*The New Leaf Journal*](...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/3</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/3"/>
<updated>2023-06-11T03:25:32.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[This is N.A. Ferrell of The New Leaf Journal. I was interested in testing Memos as a note-taking microblog. I thought about using a subdomain of The New Leaf Journal, but I decided to start fresh under a different, very official-sounding banner.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 139th 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. While I did not publish many articles in the last week, one of the articles that I did publish is quite long. Moreover, this week saw the return of The New Leaf Journal Guestbook, albeit in a new form. Without further ado, let us cover the latest news, notes, and articles from around the web.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 138 (see original). I am supposed to syndicate our Saturday newsletters on […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[But in full disclosure, Twitter did once come through in a big way for me. I am writing a long series of articles (now up to 21 reviews!) on old freeware Japanese visual novels that were translated for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together festivals. A reader saw the series and sent a DM about trying to track down the novels. I did not see the DM for about 10 months. However, when I did, I worked with the sender (who is collecting them in a public MEGA Drive) on a couple of games and the interactions led me to track down the Japanese version of Manatsu no Kagerou, which is required for playingg the al|together translation since the English version is a patch. I found it in ONE older torrent... all of the original download links were dead.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I was reliably informed yesterday that it had been three years since I made a Twitter account for The New Leaf Journal. In those three years, our account has picked up 43 followers (or 40 if we leave out one of my friends and my NLJ colleague) and my most shared post was in 2020. All of the successes I had on Twitter were from a few of my articles making Hacker News page one, all of which spread on Twitter without my doing anything. As such, I would have done about as well on Twitter had I never made an account. Let no one say, however, that I did not predict this outcome back in 2020.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I wanted to enable pingback and trackback support for WordPress pages in order to allow certain pages to accept and send […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Bing has blocked The New Leaf Journal from appearing in web search results since January (we were de-indexed in March). I created a GitHub repository to collect stories and resources about similar cases to help others with strange Bing problems.
(Note: For Microsoft reasons, I think this is one case were GitHub is the perfect host for this project.)
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I think I quipped on the NLJ a while back that I would like to see a remaster of Persona 3. I didn't think there would be one. The trailer looks slick, but no evidence of change other than much better graphics. I think P3 has the best underlying story and aesthetic of the modern Personas, but FES is weaker than 4 Golden and 5 overall (4 Golden is my favorite on account of writing and characters). I'll reflect on this and think about what I'd like to see in a full 3 remake.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Collage is the official 2006 English language translation of a 2004 freeware Japanese visual novel of the same year. The original […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I wrote a review of an open source Android launcher called Keikai Launcher a few days ago. On its own, Keikai is a simple bare-bones launcher. I would not use it as a primary launcher (I use TinyBit and Kiss would be my second choice), but it functions nicely for a second proposed use case -- an alternative app drawer. When I need to survey my apps on my LineageOS phone, Keikai is a much more elegant solution than navigating to settings. Moreover, I could see it being very useful on locked down Android-derived devices which do not let the user change his or her default launcher, such as the Kindle Fire line. Keikai is available on GitHub and F-Droid.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Thanks to the Nostr Verify plugin for WordPress, you can find NLJ editor N.A. Ferrell on Nostr at nafnlj@thenewleafjournal.com. I explain how it works, step-by-step.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I decided to go with Shotwell for the time being instead of installing Nomacs as a Flatpak. Seems to do what I need (although I prefer Nomacs). I could not figure out how to change the size of the images though. Looked it up. You can only change size when saving? Weird. It works in the end...
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I use(d) Nomacs as my image viewer. It suddenly wouldn't open photos anymore. Tried reinstalling from AUR and it won't install. Apparently I'm not the only one with the issue. The search for a replacement begins...
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Interesting discussion on Manjaro going on. I used Manjaro (first KDE, then XFCE) for my first two years on Linux before switching to EndeavourOS. I chimed in to concur with a few commenters who much prefer EndeavourOS, but that comes with a caveat. While I am much happier on EndeavourOS, Manjaro's GUI tools, notably Pamac, helped me get up to speed three years ago having come from only using Windows. EndeavourOS would have been a much heavier lift when I started.
(Note: Let us set aside that I should have been using something like Mint or one of the Ubuntus or derivatives thereof and not Manjaro.)
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I switched from Manjaro to EndeavourOS last year after using Manjaro for two (Manjaro was my first experience with Linux as a daily driver) and agree with this fully. I much prefer using Arch's regular repositories to Manjaro's. But having used Manjaro as my first distribution (I shouldn't have been using an Arch-based distro, but that aside), I don't think EndeavourOS is a one-to-one normie replacement in all respects. While I don't need or want Manjaro's GUI tools now, Pamac and its GUI kernel/driver tools helped me make the adjustment from having only used Windows to Linux. I am sure I could have managed on EndeavourOS, but it would have been more difficult at the time.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I got a result, but only by emailing bwtsupport at microsoft dot com. They resolved it. I also sent a letter to their legal dept, but I think emailing their support did the trick. This is not a published email I dug it up in a forum post. Worked. Hope you get help too.
A Microsoft forum poster suggests an alternative email address, bwtsupport at microsoft dot com, for raising concerns about Bing de-indexing. This email is listed in some older posts from the official Bing blog. I have not personally tested it yet but will keep a note here.]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I can see the strange Brooklyn NY haze from my window as I enjoy my coffee. The scene makes me sentimental (or sedimental) for one of my favorite video games -- a game which combined a foreboding fog with at least one touching family scene involving coffee. I once wrote about this special scene and giving coffee to children on school nights.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I decided to test Nostr after coming across an easy-to-use WordPress plugin for using my site as a NIP-05 identifier (short write-up forthcoming). Then came across @melvincarvalho 's Nostr directory. Managed to sign my Twitter and Mastodon with my key. I'll figure out GitHub next. Pretty neat.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's a bit smoky in Brooklyn, New York today. But on the bright side, the Moon was an interesting shade of red last night. Tsuki ga kirei desu ne indeed...
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Substack Notes' Twitter clone war
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Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20)]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I wrote a review of DecSync on March 30. DecSync allows for syncing contacts, calendars, tasks, and even RSS feeds across […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 138th 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 editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell.
While we still technically have a couple of weeks of spring here in New York City, something about June feels like the start of summer. But regardless of the season, real or perceived, we have new leaves from the week that was, links from around the web, and your usual assortment of New Leaf Journal news and notes.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 137 (see original). I am supposed to syndicate our Saturday newsletters on […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The story of how I switched from my Murena Teracube 2e phone to a Google Pixel 3a XL running LineageOS without having planned to do so.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[My review if Crimsoness, the official 2008 translation of a 2006 Japanese visual novel called Shakunetsu Hime. In Crimsoness, the player takes the role of Bakumi Moriyama, a schoolgirl who upon realizing that all of her answers on an exam were off by one, sets out to destroy the entire planet in 3 minutes. The 3 minutes is literal here -- the novel is timed. Crimsoness is, dare I say, literally an Earth-splitting adventure.
(It was also looks like it was drawn in Microsoft Paint.)
Crimsoness is free to download for Windows (the Japanese original also remains available to download). Unlike most novels I am reviewing, it was not written in ONScripter (Delphi, in this case), but the Windows version runs perfectly fine on top of WINE on Linux with no special configuration.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From Crunchyroll: Despite the dramatic cliffhanger we were left to deal with two months ago, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale continues to […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I review I, Too, Saw Dreams Through Air, a visual novel which offers two dream-like visual novels for the (free) price of one.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I read about an e-ink monitor for phones and thought the idea was interesting (as someone who wants an open source e-ink phone with a physical keyboard), but impractical. Instead of spending $300 to test a monitor (not that this was in the cards), I tried using the open source Screen Stream app on F-Droid to stream my phone screen with my feed reader to my PocketBook InkPad Color. Conclusion: It *works* -- but there are some practical annoyances.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Re-printing Hannah Leah Reed's "Flowers for Brave Soldiers," a poem from her 1917 collection, "Memorial Day and Other Verse"
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[May 29, 2023 marks Memorial Day in the United States. Memorial Day is a special occasion for paying respects to American […]
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<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Victor V. Gurbo & Co. "The Waltzing Fool" Live at the Lustre Pearl Rainey (4/16/22)]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Insani, the visual translation circle behind most of the al|together visual novel translations that I am in the process of reviewing […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 137th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perenially 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.
We published some interesting articles and short posts during the last week. We also added a new section to The New Leaf Journal. We will recap all of that below along with interesting 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 five regular articles and eight short posts sinc…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I stumbled upon a U.S. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (a component of the Department of Health and Human Services) FAQ on melatonin. One section made me concerned that the feds are using AI to write their FAQs... but I thought of the alternative explanation and decided that AI would actually be the least bad option under the circumstances.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[On April 28, 2023, the New York Post published an article titled NYC Council eyes tying parking ticket fines to people’s […]
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hBlock and My Attempt to Purchase Health Insurance in New…
Bill's Secret Garden - A Pokémon Generation 1 Urban Legend
Justin and Justina 〜 Learn to Bird
Some U.S. President Birthday Facts]]></summary>
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<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Squirrel without French fry in Manhattan]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I saw a squirrel in Battery Park eating a French fry. While I was unable to capture a photograph of the French fry squirrel, I did take a picture of a squirrel on a tree.
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A Brave Little Tree Grows in Manhattan
The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…
Squirrel With Walnut at Brooklyn Bridge Park]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I came across an interesting post by Ms. Tracy Durnell on her personal blog supporting the idea of Webmention support for […]
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Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of…
New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I review a 3-minute visual novel about a girl who sets out to destroy the planet after making a mistake on her school exam. (Explanation is in context.)
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Visual Novel Review - Shooting Star Hill]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[New York City's iconic Brooklyn Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Manhattan over the East River, officially opened to the public 140 years ago to the day. I collected original newspaper articles and materials to recount the events of festivities and ceremonies, which involved thousands of revelers and prominent persons, including then-President Chester Arthur.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a Eurasianet report: Uzbekistan is to hold snap presidential elections on July 9, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has said, citing the […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I read an article on Patchstack covering WordPress backup methods. I recommend having more than one way to backup a WordPress […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 136. We mailed the original on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Newsletter Leaf […]
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Shocker: Cats don’t like being studied in labs]]></title>
<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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Introducing the 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration…]]></summary>
