Reviewing the 140(!?) most-visited articles and short posts at The New Leaf Journal in 2025.

Using the early-season 2025-26 Los Angeles Lakers and the top-three seeds in the Western Conference in 2006-07 to demonstrate why margin-based stats may be more predictive in the NBA than win-loss record.

Reviewing the months that were at The New Leaf Journal (and sister sistes) in November and December 2025.

There is no better way to celebrate New Years Day in January 2026 than reviewing what I published on The New Leaf Journal in September and October 2025.

Introducing the theme for Winter Season 2026 at The New Leaf Journal.

Checking in on a popular Brooklyn snow sculpture after it was left to the elements for a day.

I purchased a gingerbread man soap dispenser with soap. Once I set it up in my bathroom, I noted its resemblance to everyone's favorite transforming Pokémon.

I (N.A. Ferrell) share 52 things I learned in 2025 (all of which I documented in The New Leaf Journal, The Emu Café Social, and/or The Newsletter Leaf Journal).

When I read about GPL-1 weight loss drug trials for house cats, I knew that an article topic was in there with my name on it.

Recognizing Hanukkah with a photograph of an inflatable menorah outside an aesthetic building in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

I continue our journey to add all the common (and moderately common) .txt files to The New Leaf Journal with JournalList's trust.txt file.

Philip Rivers' return to the NFL brings back my memories of having followed him in college and at the beginning of his professional career.

After five years of failure, I finally established a consistent HDMI ARC connection between my Yamaha ATS-1070 soundbar and TCL Roku TV model 55S25S (the TV does not have internet access).

Demonstrating how to add a properly formatted ads.txt file to an ad-free website. ### Curated Related Posts * Adding a carbon.txt File * On the humans.txt File * Thinkbot Visits The New Leaf Journal * The New Leaf Journal Twtxt Feed * Odd email to my @newleafjournal address

Justin of the NLJ's resident Justin and Justina dialogue duo shares a story, and quote, about Kyrgyzstan's recent parliamentary elections. ### Curated Related Posts * Uzbek President Mirziyoyev’s War and Peace of the Union * Justin and Justina 〜 The Diary of a Nobody Joke * Trump 2024 vs Bush 2004: State-by-State * Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Reform * Eyewitness to History: The Resignations of Cuomo and Spitzer * The Inspiring Political Comebacks of Byron Brown and Vito Fossella

On adding a carbon.txt file to The New Leaf Journal after learning about it from our server logs. ### Curated Related Posts * On the humans.txt File * Thinkbot Visits The New Leaf Journal * The New Leaf Journal Twtxt Feed * The New Leaf Journal’s Humane SEO Framework Sitemap * The BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review * The Trees Leaf in May * Moving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free

Unable to mail Newsletter Leaf Journal 256 due to technical issues, I post the newsletter first on The New Leaf Journal. Enjoy our links from the week that was, 21 links from around the web, and other news and notes. ### Curated Related Posts * My Newsletter Link Saving Workflow * (Syndicated) Newsletter Leaf Journal 234 * The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 * The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal * The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII

The 1998-99 Chicago Bulls were the worst defending champion in NBA history by a wide margin. But what if I told you that they were not the worst defending defending NBA champion (and not in the sense that they had won three consecutive championships going into 1998-99). ### Curated Related Posts * Best and Worst NBA Title Defenses Since 1983-84 * Examining Whether Defense Wins NBA Championships * NBA Championship Droughts * Worst NBA Playoff Teams By SRS (1984-2024) * Best Record vs Best Net Rating in 51 NBA Seasons * Pistons, Lakers, and the 2004 NBA Finals

Examining regular season and playoff stats for every NBA defending champion from 1983-84 through 2024-25. The worst is (spoiler) the 1998-99 Bulls, but which is the best? ### Curated Related Posts * Examining Whether Defense Wins NBA Championships * Best Record vs Best Net Rating in 51 NBA Seasons * Worst NBA Playoff Teams By SRS (1984-2024) * “Best” NBA Playoff Teams With Losing Records * Pistons, Lakers, and the 2004 NBA Finals

I wrote about Norton Safe Search back in 2022. In 2025, I investigate an even more peculiar search seen in my logs: Norton Browser. ### Curated Related Posts * An In-Depth Look at Norton Safe Search * Custom Search Shortcut For Norton Safe Web * Our “Safe” Norton Safeweb Rating * DuckDuckGo in the Bing Pond * Search Engine NLJ Domain Search Test * Comparing DuckDuckGo Lite and Qwant Lite * A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search Resources

A quick look at a free and open source WordPress plugin called Years Ago Today. ### Curated Related Posts * 999: The Dialogue * Good Internet Writing Habits * Implementing Boolean Search On NLJ * Moving a WordPress Site With UpdraftPlus Free * The 81 Most-Visited Articles of 2024

I previously wrote about catching a level 15 Dragonair in the Pokémon Yellow Safari Zone. In this follow-up report, I examine Dragonair's non-standard 27 catch rate, unique to Yellow. ### Curated Related Posts * Dragonair Safari in Pokémon Yellow * Searching for Caterpie in Viridian Forest * The Pokémon Special Split in Generation 2 – Statistics and Analysis * Imagination in Pokémon Red and Blue * Expert Gamer’s 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank * Memories of Shiny Drowzee in Pokémon Gold

For the second time I examine a very expensive college football coach firing at LSU. But here we have some surprising links to an even more recent firing at Texas A&M. ### Curated Related Posts * On Coach Jimbo Fisher’s Buyout * College Football Coach Salaries and Buyouts and Colleges as Institutions * The Army-Navy Game and the College Football Playoffs * 1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft

On specific blue light glasses lenses to combat the excessively bright headlights in Brooklyn.

John Salley stated that Dennis Rodman refused to guard him in his 1992 return to Detroit after being traded to the Miami Heat. I decided to investigate when a couple of things did not add up.