content: 2026-05-04 capture run — superpost, review, find updates

- Superpost: 2026-05-04-geography-is-the-program (4 travel finds). - Review: snewpapers-newspaper-archive (graduates the find; new `history` category; corrects the find's "no account required" claim and notes the American-focused coverage). - New find: synerlogic-macos-shortcut-sticker. - Find updates: snewpapers find gets promotedTo; noir-japanese-cookies flagged with editorialTags: ["delete"] for later triage. - daily-finds.log.md: capture-run log + review/superpost entries.
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  - general-delight
 tags: [snacks, japan, yamazaki, sandwich-cookie]
 description: "Yamazaki Biscuits launched Noir in 2017 after Mondelez moved Oreo production to China — real cacao mass in the wafer, restrained vanilla cream, eats well without milk."
+editorialTags: ["delete"]
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 When Mondelez moved Japanese Oreo production to China in 2016, Yamazaki Biscuits launched Noir as a deliberate replacement aimed at the people who actually liked the old recipe. The wafer carries real cacao mass, which makes it slightly bitter and astringent against a restrained vanilla cream — they're sandwich cookies that work without milk. Cost a few yen less than imported Oreos in Japanese supermarkets, easy to find at konbini, and a small case study in a domestic brand quietly out-engineering an imported one.
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  - general-delight
 tags: [archives, history, newspapers, research, browsing]
 description: "A browsable archive of digitised newspapers spanning the 1730s through the 1960s — a rabbit hole for historians, genealogists, and anyone who reads obituaries for fun."
+promotedTo: snewpapers-newspaper-archive
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 Snewpapers is a browseable index of digitised newspaper pages that runs from the 1730s through the 1960s — a pre-Google view of how breaking news, baseball scores, and patent-medicine ads actually appeared on the page. It's built for the kind of curiosity that has you pulling on threads — a great-grandparent's wedding notice, a small-town bank failure from 1893, the way a single weather front gets reported simultaneously in a dozen cities. Free to browse, no account required.
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+name: "Synerlogic macOS Keyboard Shortcut Vinyl Sticker"
+subtitle: "A $6 cheat-sheet sticker for the palm rest"
+date: 2026-05-04
+link: "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08T62WL88"
+source: "Tools and Toys"
+topics:
+  - tools
+  - gifts
+tags: [macos, keyboard, sticker, reference, edc]
+description: "A vinyl decal of common macOS keyboard shortcuts, sized for a MacBook palm rest — eight finishes, $6, the cheat-sheet you actually leave on."
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+A small vinyl decal printed with the most-used macOS keyboard shortcuts, sized to sit on a MacBook's palm rest where your eye drops a hundred times a day. The point isn't memorising shortcuts you already know — it's the next tier, the ones you keep forgetting until you finally cave and check (⌘⌥⇧V for paste-and-match-style, ⌘⌃Q for lock screen). Eight finishes, $6, the kind of cheat sheet that's actually still on the laptop a year later because removing it costs more than the sticker did.