I review I, Too, Saw Dreams Through Air, a visual novel which offers two dream-like visual novels for the (free) price of one. Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… All About the Saw-whet Owl The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime Bird in Review 〜 Yellow Throated Toucan "Casey's Revenge" - Grantland Rice's 1896 Reply Poem to… Searching for School Days' Nice Boat Calvin Coolidge's 1922 "Better Homes" Remarks Excerpts From "A Weaver's Reverie"  ( 17 min )

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/streaming-from-android-to-pocketbook/ #fdroid #opensource #android #lineageos #eink #pocketbook

Re-printing Hannah Leah Reed's "Flowers for Brave Soldiers," a poem from her 1917 collection, "Memorial Day and Other Verse" "Flowers for brave soldiers— Flowers for those who loved us, Flowers to their memory, This fair spring day!" https://thenewleafjournal.com/flowers-for-brave-soldiers-memorial-poem/ #memorialday #poem #poetry

May 29, 2023 marks Memorial Day in the United States. Memorial Day is a special occasion for paying respects to American […] Possibly related posts... The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho An 1895 Poem on Memorial Day and Piece by Theodore Roosevelt The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… Memorial Flowers - 1880 Memorial Day Poem Brave and DuckDuckGo Timer Search Shortcuts "Memorial Day" by Helen Leah Reed Anna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother's Day in the United… How the Forget-Me-Not Flower Found Its Name Eisenhower's 1954 Veterans Day Proclamation  ( 5 min )

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Insani, the visual translation circle behind most of the al|together visual novel translations that I am in the process of reviewing […] Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Going From ONScripter Visual Novel .exe to Native Linux Running ONScripter-En in Linux Visual Novel Directory Running Linux Visual Novels With ONScripter Red Shift Visual Novel Review Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review MIDI sound for games on Arch-based distro A Winter's Tale - Visual Novel Review io [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review  ( 5 min )

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…  ( 8 min )

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-nccihs-ai-like-melatonin-covid-note/ #nih #melatonin #ai #covid #textualism

On April 28, 2023, the New York Post published an article titled NYC Council eyes tying parking ticket fines to people’s […] Possibly related posts... Seeing Hopkins-Jones II at the Theater The Fallen No Standing Anytime Sign In Brooklyn That Lead By… A Look at ProxiTok, a TikTok Frontend Perspectives From Japan On Watching Movie Credits Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ 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  ( 5 min )

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. Possibly related posts... Photographing a Squirrel Kiss in Three Acts 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge Tranquility at the Foot of the Manhattan Bridge TI-89 Haiku: Boerum Blue Jay and Black Squirrel Black Squirrel in a Tree in Brooklyn The Cows of Bloomingdale's and Macy's at the 2021 NYC Cow… A Brave Little Tree Grows in Manhattan The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… Squirrel With Walnut at Brooklyn Bridge Park  ( 6 min )

A May 2020 post inspired by a dictionary usage example for "leaf": "as the trees leaf in May." https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-trees-leaf-in-may/ #dictionary #trees #leaves #leaf #may

I came across an interesting post by Ms. Tracy Durnell on her personal blog supporting the idea of Webmention support for […] Possibly related posts... Substack Notes' Twitter clone war IndieWeb Standards, RSS, and Atom How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes Enabling Disabled WordPress Pingbacks Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media Calling For More IndieWeb in WordPress The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader  ( 5 min )

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.) Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review Red Shift Visual Novel Review Version history of Aru Fuyu no Monogatari Visual Novel Review: May Sky ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review io [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review Visual Novel Review: "Summer, Cicadas, and the Girl" Visual Novel Review - Shooting Star Hill  ( 17 min )

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/1883-opening-of-the-brooklyn-bridge/ #history #nyc #brooklyn #manhattan #brooklynbridge

A long post with original accounts from the May 24, 1883 opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. Possibly related posts... Wasteful talk show subsidies in New York In Support of the Lawsuit Against NYC Dining Sheds On NYC Curfews and Essential Workers A Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge's Mysterious Cobweb Lane The Questionable NYC Mayoral Campaign About Page of Maya… The Awful About Page for Sara Tirschwell's NYC Mayoral… Harry Wilson Wants My Vote For Governor Freedom Tower in the Fog From the Brooklyn Bridge  ( 23 min )

Substack's view that its Notes platform is not a Twitter clone misses the forest through the trees. Possibly related posts... Reviewing the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter Against Twitter as a Content Curator Learning How to Change a Twitter Username The New Leaf Journal Twitter Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review  ( 13 min )

From a Eurasianet report: Uzbekistan is to hold snap presidential elections on July 9, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has said, citing the […] Possibly related posts... Uzbek President Mirziyoyev's War and Peace of the Union History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines Benjamin Harrison's Memorable July 4, 1888 The Story of Billy Possum, President Hoover's Pet Opossum Calvin Coolidge's 1922 "Better Homes" Remarks The 999 Life of Herman Cain Biden, Lincoln, and Counting Back From the President's Birth Aliens vs Noncitizens - The Anatomy of a Debate Kazakhstan's Constitutional Reform  ( 6 min )

I read an article on Patchstack covering WordPress backup methods. I recommend having more than one way to backup a WordPress […] Possibly related posts... Moving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal WordPress self-written plugin adventures Pokémon and NFTs The New Leaf Journal 2022 Half-Year Review No "Newsletter" Folders in WordPress Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Transferring Photos From My BlackBerry Classic Using KDE… Ghostwriter Markdown Editor Review  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal 136. We mailed the original on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Newsletter Leaf […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII Saving Internet Archive URLs in Wallabag  ( 10 min )

On December 19, 2022, EL PAÍS published an article by Ms. Laura Camón: Your cat knows you’re talking to it, but […] Possibly related posts... Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Halloween Cooking and Decorating Tips From 1913 Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81) Sowell on Walter Williams and Objective Teaching The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday Dialogue: Alpacas, Virus Cures, and Paca Plus An Essay on Productivity, Production, and Productive Leisure Is my cat deaf, or does she just not give a...?  ( 5 min )

From a Catholic News Agency report (May 2, 2023): A Utah bill that is designed to prevent minors from accessing pornography […] Possibly related posts... Productivity Window Shopping and Backlogs An Essay on Productivity, Production, and Productive Leisure Cheap USB-C Hubs and Short-Lasting Tech The Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 - 114 Years Later Seeing the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds from Columbia Street… 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…  ( 5 min )

From a March 21, 2023 report by Adam Shaw of Fox News: Officials say the Rio Grande Valley Sector — one […] Possibly related posts... Notes on the U.S. Border Patrol's Horse Patrol Noncitizen Nationals as Immigrant Visa Petitioners Aliens vs Noncitizens - The Anatomy of a Debate DHS Horse Appropriations and CBP Horse Patrol Against Chinese Government Propaganda The Hang Glider Citizenship Provision Midjourney Exports CCP Censorship Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem Immigration Issues in NYPD Chinese Agent Case  ( 5 min )

Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion is a solid, currently-airing anime, based on a Korean novel. I have enjoyed […] Possibly related posts... The BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review Using an Amiga OS-Inspired Window Theme In XFCE With XFWM4 Reviewing the Mondrian Theme for KDE Plasma The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review 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  ( 5 min )

When the photo in one article about a deep sea snailfish does not satisfy deep sea expectations, read a second article. Possibly related posts... An Introduction to RSS and Other Feed Formats IndieWeb Standards, RSS, and Atom How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The Pine Tree Lovers of Takasago Revisiting a Texas sea turtle rescue story RSS as a Facebook Alternative Follow The New Leaf Journal Pixelfed Atom Feed Comment on the NLJ with Hypothes.is The 1895 Homing Pigeon Experiment On the Manoubia  ( 6 min )

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…  ( 7 min )

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). https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/the-best-nintendo-controllers/ #nintendo #videogames #controller #snes #switch #gamecube #nes #virtualboy #wiiu

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. Possibly related posts... What is an "Android Alternative"? Reviewing FrogFind: A Search Engine For Vintage Computers Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… 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… The Misleading DRM E-Book Buy Button DecSync Review  ( 10 min )

On April 22, 2023, Nintendo Life published the results of a reader survey ranking the best Nintendo controllers. The results were […] Possibly related posts... History of the Mario Party Gloves Mario Party's Joystick-Wrecking Rotation Games The Aborted Nintendo-Minnesota Lottery Scheme Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ 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  ( 6 min )

I opined over on Bearblog that there is no clear anime of the year front-runner through the first season and a […] Possibly related posts... The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) The Best Anime Series of 2021 Height differences in anime romances Familiar song in Angel Next Door anime What Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection. That Longest Year of School Finally Ends The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII  ( 5 min )

Back on March 5, 2023, I shared a report by Mr. Brad Linder of Liliputing about a new 6.7 inch e-ink […] Possibly related posts... Dasung to release e-ink phone monitor The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday Review of the Teracube 2e Smartphone The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The ideal phone, e-ink and QWERTY Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and… A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Help! I Think My TV Is Watching Me  ( 5 min )

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." https://thenewleafjournal.com/our-town-pretty-enough-for-all-normal-purposes/ #play #ourtown #literature #parenting #humor

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. Possibly related posts... The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime Tokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) 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  ( 7 min )

From a report on the Nintendo Switch Virtual Console release of Kirby’s Dreamland 2, which was originally released for the Game […] Possibly related posts... Video Game Visuals That Age Well Paying Game Boy Dues For a Nintendo Switch Stadia and the Value of Owning Games Bonner's "In Dreamland" Bedtime Story The Aborted Nintendo-Minnesota Lottery Scheme The Quarantine Sessions: Covering The Beatles History of the Mario Party Gloves Mario Party's Joystick-Wrecking Rotation Games Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem  ( 5 min )

From Roaming rooster captured by cops in lower Manhattan (NY Post – March 22, 2023): Cops then flocked to the scene […] Possibly related posts... Wasteful talk show subsidies in New York In Support of the Lawsuit Against NYC Dining Sheds On NYC Curfews and Essential Workers The Questionable NYC Mayoral Campaign About Page of Maya… A Rooster Statue in Brooklyn The Awful About Page for Sara Tirschwell's NYC Mayoral… Harry Wilson Wants My Vote For Governor The Arrival of Sparrows in the United States Low Standards For NYC Dating Scene  ( 5 min )

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." https://thenewleafjournal.com/welcome-to-the-emu-cafe/ #aesthetics #blog #writing #seasons #anecdote

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. Possibly related posts... Fediverse Clone Wars and Decentralized Social Media The Small Web, Artisanal Content, and Humane Design An Early Review of Pixelfed - Instagram Alternative ATW 〜 Murakami on Bad Social Media Content Importance of Bing Indexing For Alt Search 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  ( 12 min )

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 …  ( 6 min )

On using an open source project called Osmosfeed to create a GitHub Pages-powered New Leaf Journal feed aggregator. https://thenewleafjournal.com/introducing-our-osmosfeed-aggregator/ #rss #rssfeed #github #aggregator #osmosfeed

Using GrapheneOS's handy web installer to put the hardened Android Open Source Project fork on a Google Pixel 6a phone. Possibly related posts... Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones Review of the Teracube 2e Smartphone Installing LineageOS on a 2013 Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) Installing Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013) The Quiet End of Google Bookmarks Creating a Search Engine Shortcut For Google Timer A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search…  ( 14 min )

Welcome to the syndicated version of Newsletter Leaf Journal CXXXV. I mailed the original on Saturday, May 13, 2023. This newsletter […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader  ( 9 min )

I subscribe to the Atlas Obscura  (link to feed). Sometimes it is not quite clear from the description what the link […] Possibly related posts... The American Bee Journal World's Fair Report Against Twitter as a Content Curator Proposals for Fact-Checking Reform Height differences in anime romances The Trees Leaf in May When President Coolidge Spared a Raccoon From Thanksgiving… The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… Babylon Bee on sushi being a prank Using Web Archives To Get Around CAPTCHAs  ( 5 min )

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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. Two ducks in a drizzle at the BBG (2007) Another photo from my 2007 set. The NCCIH’s A…  ( 7 min )

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/anna-jarvis-and-the-origin-of-mothers-day-in-the-united-states/ #mothersday #history #ushistory #holiday #newspaper

From a report by Mr. Brad Matthews of The Washington Times: A viral TikTok recipe, wherein ice cream is wrapped in […] Possibly related posts... Futaba Igarashi's Hair Is Naturally Green? Height differences in anime romances A Look at ProxiTok, a TikTok Frontend On Children, TikTok, and Social Media Stardom Capo vs Capo, a TikTok Debacle Crossing Paths With "The Most Annoying People In the World" Tik Tok for TikTok on Federal Government Devices History of the Mario Party Gloves Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review  ( 5 min )

From Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony (post): The 2013 model was not only one of the best tablets available at the […] Possibly related posts... Installing Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013) Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Defective second-hand graphics cards Installing LineageOS on a 2013 Nexus 7 (Wi-Fi) Review of /e/ - An Android Alternative For Mobile Phones Saving Internet Archive URLs in Wallabag A BlackBerry-esque mini Linux computer... Fixing Wallabag connect issue on Nexus 7 The Quiet End of Google Bookmarks  ( 5 min )

Introducing the newest member of The New Leaf Journal family: An Osmosfeed-powered aggregator called New Leaf Journal Feeds. Possibly related posts... Introducing "The Quarantine Sessions" 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…  ( 9 min )

Mr. Jeff Starr, the WordPress developer behind the Wutsearch Search Engine launchpad and a couple of plugins that we use at The […] Possibly related posts... Review of Wutsearch, a Search Engine Launchpad On the humans.txt File Searching for the Figure Behind the Blob Dylan Tags in NYC… Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and… Bookmark: Death of Feedburner? Wholesale category reassessment Reply to 10 ways to ruin a website Around the Web 〜 Alternative Software and Services Resources The Quarantine Sessions: Covering The Beatles  ( 12 min )

The NCCIH's answer to a question about whether melatonin prevents or treats a certain virus raises tangential questions. Possibly related posts... History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines Trying National Park Typeface Noncitizen Nationals as Immigrant Visa Petitioners Dialogue: Alpacas, Virus Cures, and Paca Plus Reviewing the HALOmask and är Mask NLJ Recommendations From Around the Web III Benjamin Harrison's Memorable July 4, 1888 Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation Against Chinese Government Propaganda  ( 7 min )

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Advanced Custom Fields is one of the most-used WordPress plugins. It has security vulnerabilities from time to time like many other […] Possibly related posts... Wallabag Custom Search Engine Shortcuts Brave and DuckDuckGo Timer Search Shortcuts An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search Fixing a WP Custom Post Type Permalink Error EnBizCard Review - FOSS Digital Business Cards Adding custom search shortcut for Wayback Machine Custom Search Shortcut For Norton Safe Web A Look at ProxiTok, a TikTok Frontend Naver Webmaster Trials and Tribulations  ( 5 min )

Welcome to the syndicated 134th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal. I threw down the gauntlet with our May 6 mailing (see […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The New Leaf Journal Newsletter How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader  ( 11 min )

I was watching an episode of Mix from my bed on Saturday night (Sunday morning to be technical). The back of […] Possibly related posts... Our Friend the House Centipede When President Coolidge Spared a Raccoon From Thanksgiving… Bonner's "The Tired Eagles" The Mint Bike in the Melting Snow of Brooklyn The Story of Billy Possum, President Hoover's Pet Opossum The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Bird in Review 〜 The Nonpareil The Arrival of Sparrows in the United States The Story of the Herald Square Carrier Pigeons  ( 5 min )

Another photo from my spring 2007 set -- two ducks standing in the drizzle at New York City's Brooklyn Botanic Garden. https://thenewleafjournal.com/two-ducks-in-a-drizzle-at-the-bbg-2007/ #nyc #brooklyn #brooklynbotanicgarden #brooklynbotanicgardens #bbg #birds #duck #ducks #pond #rain #raindrops #nikond40 #thenewleafjournal #newleafjournal

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-quarantine-sessions-love-henry/ #music #folkmusic #lovehenry #bobdylan #history

My 2007 photograph of two ducks in a drizzle at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Possibly related posts... Bird in Review 〜 Mandarin Duck Duck and Duckling Rescue Stories From Around the Web Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The NYPD's Duck Family Rescue in Midtown Manhattan Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook Rose at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (2007) Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…  ( 5 min )

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. 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 publish…  ( 9 min )

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. https://thenewleafjournal.com/peekier-redirects-to-kagi-search/ #search #searchengine #peekier #kagi #bing

My good friend and New Leaf Journal colleague, Victor V. Gurbo, came to visit today. We are slowly playing through Danganronpa […] Possibly related posts... Nineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho A Turnip-Shaped Study of the Word "Napiform" Whyever Do The Cicadas Cry - A Study of a Word New Leaf Spring Content, New and Old 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  ( 5 min )

A collection of 2021 duck and duckling rescue stories from around the web (storm drains appear to be a great struggle for ducklings). https://thenewleafjournal.com/duck-and-duckling-rescue-stories-from-around-the-web/ #duck #birds #firefighters #police #stormdrain

I run the EndeavourOS operating system with the XFCE desktop environment on my main desktop. After discovering Ulauncher while installing Bodhi […] Possibly related posts... Reviewing the Ulauncher Markdown Table Creator Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook MIDI sound for games on Arch-based distro The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Running ONScripter-En in Linux Visual Novel Directory 1897 Magazine Offer - Pocket Kodak and Kodak No. 4 Bulls-Eye… Old Games, MIDI, and EndeavourOS From mullvad-vpn-cli to mullvad-vpn-bin Teaching the Art of the Video Game Snafu  ( 5 min )

I like anime. Anime is often based on Japanese manga. I use Linux. But until I learned about a very cozy […] Possibly related posts... Usagi Drop 〜 A Complicated Anime Pick The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Syncing Umineko When They Cry With Syncthing Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) Visual Novel Review: May Sky The Mystery of Sōseki and Tsuki ga Kirei The Best Anime Series of 2021 DRM and losing the quality you paid for The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations  ( 5 min )

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). https://thenewleafjournal.com/an-unclear-and-indistinct-idea-of-a-truth-tree/ #philosophy #humor #anecdote #descartes #microsoftpaint

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.  ( 2 min )

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.  ( 2 min )

The Peekier search tool, once reviewed by The New Leaf Journal, is no more (or so the fact it redirects to Kagi suggests). Possibly related posts... Peekier Search Engine Review A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search Brave and DuckDuckGo Timer Search Shortcuts Review of Wutsearch, a Search Engine Launchpad Importance of Bing Indexing For Alt Search The Downstream Effects of Bing's Tiananmen Square Censorship Wallabag Custom Search Engine Shortcuts Adding custom search shortcut for Wayback Machine  ( 9 min )

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). https://thenewleafjournal.com/leafbud/ublock-origin-available-for-thunderbird/ #thunderbird #ublockorigin #extensions #addons #adblocking

As of uBlock Origin version 1.49.2, you can now install the extension for Mozilla Thunderbird (see release version). The extension page […] Possibly related posts... From AUR to Mainline Arch Thunderbird An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search DecSync Review Recommended F-Droid FOSS Apps For Android-Based Devices… Pokémon Cursor Theme For Linux and Windows Peekier Search Engine Review The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations A Look at ProxiTok, a TikTok Frontend Installing and Running Bodhi Linux on a 2007 MacBook  ( 5 min )

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). https://thenewleafjournal.com/rose-at-the-brooklyn-botanic-garden-2007/ #nyc #brooklyn #brooklynbotanicgarden #flowers #flower #rose #nikond40 #picasa #thenewleafjournal #newleafjournal