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N.A. Ferrell
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I am the administrator, editor, and main writer of The New Leaf Journal (https://thenewleafjournal.com) and The Emu Café Social (https://social.emucafe.org | @naferrell). I am a legal writer and researcher by trade. Because my homeserver is linuxrocks.online: I run EndeavourOS (XFCE) on my desktop workstation and Fedora (KDE) on most of my laptops. I have two phones, one running GrapheneOS and the other Ubuntu Touch. My websites run on Ubuntu Server with Cloudron.

Re-printing the first U.S. Veterans Day Proclamation, written and issued by then-President (and prominent veteran) Dwight D. Eisenhower 69 years to the day:

https://thenewleafjournal.com/eisenhowers-1954-veterans-day-proclamation/

#VeteransDay #Eisenhower #veterans #ushistory #history

A post reviewing Halloween cooking and decorating tips from a 1913 magazine.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/halloween-cooking-and-decorating-tips-from-1913/

#halloween #cooking #decorating #owls

From last November (I was a bit late), a 12-foot flying witch seen in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn (NYC).

https://thenewleafjournal.com/flying-12-foot-witch-in-carroll-gardens/

#halloween #witch #brooklyn #nyc #carrollgardens

A comprehensive study of hair color in the English translation of a 2005 freeware Japanese visual novel titled A Dream of Summer (because why not?).

https://thenewleafjournal.com/hair-color-in-a-dream-of-summer/

(Note that a re-worked browser version of A Dream of Summer is free to play on Freem! in both English and the original Japanese)

#visualnovels #VisualNovel #videogames #freeware #haircolor

A look back at the 1922 Better Homes Demonstration Week, a project headed by the administration of then-U.S. President Warren Harding. This introduction post links to two follow-up articles on remarks by then-Vice President Calvin Coolidge and Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/introducing-the-1922-better-homes-in-america-demonstration-week/

#ushistory #history #uspresident #home

I took a trip through Pokemon's Kanto region to examine the 10 city/town slogans and how they changed (or stayed the same) through all of Kanto's appearances. Because everyone likes rankings, I concluded with a ranking of the slogans based on the slogans in and of themselves and how they fit the city or town.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/town-slogans-pokemons-kanto/

#pokemon #gameboy #videogames

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.)

https://thenewleafjournal.com/duckduckgo-in-the-bing-pond/

#bing #duckduckgo #searchengine #microsoft

My thoughts on PocketBook apparently planning to release an Android-based e-reader.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/leaf/on-an-android-based-pocketbook-ereader/

#android #pocketbook #ereader #eink