<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 149th 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. This week was light on new article publishing, but I have a decent selection of new pieces to share in addition to our usual links from around the web, links from our archives, and some interesting site news and notes.
Leaves from the week that was
We published two full articles since mailing Newsletter 148.
Game FAQs Guide For Game Boy Golf (1990)
I was looking for information about Nintendo's 1990 Golf game for Game Boy (why not?). It was like 2004 all over again. The only hope was Game FAQs.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From a June 26, 2023 report in Nintendo Life: Yes, you read that headline correctly. Outright Games has today announced that […]
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[I set up an repository for [osmosmemo](https://github.com/osmoscraft/osmosmemo-template). I can use ...]]></title>
<id>https://memos.emucafe.org/m/28</id>
<link href="https://memos.emucafe.org/m/28"/>
<updated>2023-08-17T18:09:55.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I set up an repository for osmosmemo. I can use a Firefox extension to immediately save links (with notes and tags) into a GitHub readme. One drawback is that it only works with GitHub. But I used the same token that I created to give the extension read/write access to clone the repo to my Gitea instance. Seems like a neat tool.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the syndicated 148th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[From an August 8, 2023 report in Smithsonian Magazine: If you’ve always dreamed of cozying up inside your ownbeautiful lighthouse on […]
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I read an interesting fact about the last Nintendo Wii game being released in 2019. But was Just Dance 2020 really the last Wii game? I decided to investigate and learned that the answer depends on where you ask, but Just Dance 2020 was at least the last Wii game in North America.
<summary type="html"><![CDATA["The Band’s impact on the world of music has been immense, and they will live on in their work – and will always be, to me, very much alive whenever I play their records."
<title type="html"><![CDATA[See my associated article: https://thenewleafjournal.com/trash-pick-up-vehicle-on-brooklyn-bridge/
I took this photo on New York City's Brooklyn Bridge with my BlackBerry Classic phone camera on August 12, 2019. This photo is next to the first Manhattan pedestrian exit and close to the second. Back in 2019, the small pedestrian walkway was split between walkers and bikers (the bikes were banished to a separate path in 2021). The Bridge was difficult to navigate without NYC DOT trucks doing trash pickup in broad daylight. My photo does not capture how much it was struggling, but note that the only way around it was for walkers to go into the bike path (left side was for walkers).
I took this photo on New York City's Brooklyn Bridge with my BlackBerry Classic phone camera on August 12, 2019. This photo is next to the first Manhattan pedestrian exit and close to the second. Back in 2019, the small pedestrian walkway was split between walkers and bikers (the bikes were banished to a separate path in 2021). The Bridge was difficult to navigate without NYC DOT trucks doing trash pickup in broad daylight. My photo does not capture how much it was struggling, but note that the only way around it was for walkers to go into the bike path (left side was for walkers).<br />
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 148th 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. We had a slow week in terms of article publishing, but that will not slow down this newsletter.
Leaves from the week that was
I published one new article since mailing newsletter 147.
Trash pick-up vehicle on Brooklyn Bridge
A 2019 photo of a small New York City DOT truck on the Brooklyn Bridge's then-narrower pedestrian walkway.
I also published three short posts.
MTA announces G-Train Upgrades (I offer some brief thoughts on one of the most unique NYC Subway lines)
Brave no longer relying on Bing images (Brave drops i…]]></summary>
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
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<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Keyword additions and optimizations — 20230808]]></title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 147th 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. After a slow two weeks of publishing, we returned to a normal publishing schedule last week. Below, we review our most recent posts, links from around the web, and other news and notes.
Leaves from the week that was
We published five new articles since mailing Newsletter 146.
Basquiat Forgeries Made With Alarming Ease
Wherein I ponder the implications of how easy it was for frauders to create convincing Basquiat forgeries.
Anime Case Against Japan's Population Loss
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Published one year to the day... an analysis of the cover design of a strange unsolicited direct mail religious conversion narrative (actually had more about a lawsuit than the conversion) found in my mailbox. I always know when the direct mail campaign is back on when this post suddenly sees a surge of views.
Added: barbie dollhouse, push it to the limit, cool wolf, you can do anything, you can do everything, asap darknet asap market, asapmarket, etsy.com, affordable plans, reliable performance, excellent customer support, exceptional speed, advanced security]]></summary>
<author>
<name>Recent Commits to wordpress-comment-blacklist-NLJFork:master</name>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I drafted a new article about DuckDuckGo's reliance on Bing. Shortly after drafting, and before editing, I read that TechCrunch had been blacklisted/de-indexed by Bing. I suppose the timing was good for the article but it created more work for me. (Obligatory note that NLJ is de-indexed by Bing, and as a result, invisible to DuckDuckGo.)
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[July 2023 at The New Leaf Journal]]></title>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[On the brink: Namibia’s wild desert horses]]></title>
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Basquiat Forgeries Made With Alarming Ease]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I say what the reports left implicit about the fact that two fraudsters created 25 convincing Basquiat forgeries with nothing more than cardboard and a few minutes of painting.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 146th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official writing magazine 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 it was not a busy week at The New Leaf Journal, I easily surpassed our publishing output of no articles last week. Thus, you can expect a more traditional newsletter below with our most recent articles, links from around the web, and some surprising news and notes.
Leaves from the week that was
I published two regular articles and three leaflets/leaf buds in the previous week. First, I present the articles.
Hallmarks of Former Service Members
A story from my college days about how the professor inf…]]></summary>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Last week's Newsletter Leaf Journal was unusual because I did not publish any articles between July 15-22. Thus, with no NEW articles to share, I resorted to sharing more links from our archives than usual and 18 links from around the web. I thought the selection was solid.
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<author>
<name>Nicholas A. Ferrell</name>
</author>
</entry>
<entry>
<title type="html"><![CDATA[Daily Tech News 29 July 2023]]></title>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[DuckDuckGo in the Bing Pond]]></title>
<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I use KDE"s Ghostwriter for all of my markdown writing needs. It has a Pandoc GUI. I have reason for a work project to want to go from markdown to pdf but without page numbers on the resulting pdf output. I hunted for a solution and found a good YAML-based trick.
https://memos.emucafe.org/m/27
Do any pandoc experts have a better idea? This one does work without any additional Pandoc fiddling in Ghostwriter.
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Welcome to the 145th 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.
This will be an unusual newsletter since I did not actually publish any articles this week. I was busy with work and plagued by sinus issues. I do have an article in the pipeline, but I have not gotten around to publishing it yet. (Next week will likely be on the quiet side as well, albeit busy compared to a week of no publishing.) But we need not let the lack of publishing at The New Leaf Journal hinder its newsletter cousin...
The Old Leaf Journal
While I did not publish new articles, we can dig into the arc…]]></summary>