Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-21-26

Let us see what is happening around the world wide web with today’s collection of Pook-Emu Bee links.

1. Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it. (Emile Marzolf, Ellen O’Regan, and Eliza Gkritsi for Politico EU. April 17, 2026.)

Maybe the EU just wants everyone to be able to check your age. (HT Ambient Irony.)

1. New website tracks wait times for trendy NYC eateries — by paying locals to film diners in line (Marie Pohl and Nicole Rosenthal for the New York Post. April 20, 2026.)

We have a few “long line” places in areas I regularly walk in Brooklyn. They are almost certainly not “Manhattan” bad, save for one qualified exception in Carroll Gardens. Both the restaurants that encourage it and the people who stand and pose in line while blocking the sidewalk are annoying. Thus, I respectfully decline to side against this entrepreneurial endeavor.

1. Palestinian Authority Has Paid Convicted Terrorists Released as Part of Gaza Ceasefire Deal, State Department Tells Congress (Adam Kredo for The Washington Free Beacon. April 20, 2026.)

How unexpected!

1. Belizean Woman Found Guilty of Naturalization Fraud (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. April 20, 2026.)

This story brings together two things that U.S. immigration law does not like: Bigamy and fraud/

1. A New Project (Matthew Morgan at World of Matthew. April 20, 2026.)

I decided to create a listing of all graves in North Norfolk, starting with St Nicholas’ Church in North Walsham. This project will take at least a year. But providing information was what the early internet was about ‘The Information super-highway’.

Matthew Morgan

Very neat. I look forward to seeing it next year.

1. The story of the most jacked NBA player you never heard of (Bjorn Del B. Deade for Basketball Network. April 19, 2026.)

I never heard of the late Jim “Prince of Pecs” Rowinski, so the headline is accurate as applied to me.

1. We Should Appreciate the Mike Trout Renaissance While We Can (Neil Paine. April 17, 2026.)

I hope Mr. Trout stays in good health so he can keep performing like the clock turned back to the 2010s. A real phoenix, not a lukewarm phoenix. I appreciated one note:

Amazingly, [Barry] Bonds was older there than Trout is now, but Bonds’ late-career performances — however you think he engineered them — were on another planet. We aren’t really expecting to see anything like that anytime soon, unless maybe MLB’s PED policy changes down the line.

Despite being neither a baseball expert nor writer, I did publish an essay about a peculiar “very late Barry Bonds” career phenomenon back in 2023. Many Barry Bonds stats are included.

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