The founding developer of WordPress — the open-source blogging software that The Rumpus runs on, as well as millions of other great sites (including the New York Times!) — was recently featured in Inc. magazine’s monthly column, “The Way I Work.”

Because of the magazine’s rules about the column — they’re authored in the first person but subjects don’t write them directly, and they aren’t allowed to vet them before publication — Mullenweg found his a little misleading and vague on points he wanted to be specific about. So he rewrote it and annotated it, and published it on his own blog.

The piece is an interesting look into the days and nights of a person whose work has been quietly changing the world for the better. And some of the habits he talks about are interesting tips for any creative person, such as listening to a single track on repeat, hundreds of times, in order to stay focused. Link.

Soon, you will go off and have an awesome weekend. But in the meantime:

It seems that orange jumpsuits are de rigeur for performing autopsies of large animals. Some of the images are graphic. Via @ooga_booga)

This website encourages you to spend at least $50 a month at the local, independently-owned businesses that you’d miss if they were gone.

The world’s first open-source car.

A collection of creepy (not to mention sexist) vintage ads. My favorite is probably the shaving baby.

Finally, Things to Say During Sex: A Chart.

Lynn Shelton’s third feature film, Humpday (trailer after the jump), is getting a lot of love for its quiet, almost bashful take on this year’s favorite buzz-relationship: “the bromance.”

Humpday takes the concept to a whole new level though, with two old college friends meeting up ten years later to shoot an indie straight-dude on straight-dude porn flick. Safe to say this one is going to be a lil’ edgier than I Love You Man.

Our own Michelle Orange (who discussed Shelton’s second feature film, My Effortless Brilliance, here) has an intimate profile in The New York Times on Shelton in which she discusses Shelton’s optimism, her many hats (Shelton is a “poet-author, dancer-actress, [...] photographer-video artist, writer-editor and [...] director”), her past films, and her  “vaulting laughter.”

As a man who has been in my fair share of bromances I was already looking forward to Humpday, but do so now more than ever after reading Orange’s “She’s a Director Who’s Just Another Dude.” …more

Harry Allen, Hip Hop activist and writer for The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, has a touching and insightful piece about the death of VIBE magazine on his blog Media Assassin.

Allen, who was a freelance writer for VIBE for over a decade, describes his final visit to the magazine’s headquarters as they shut down, and looks back on the magazine’s triumphs as well as its flaws in “My Final Visit as VIBE Flatlines.”

Guernica talks to Fatima Bhutto, 27-year-old poet and Pakistan’s heir apparent, about the death of her father in one of Pakistan’s famous “encounters,” the two sides of Benazir and why Obama legitimizes the Taliban.

In “Dancing About Architecture,” Arthur Philips’s essay in the July issue of The Believer, Philips offers a worthy apology for writing on music, and why the physical impact of the phrase “chill horn,” in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions, has value.

“Head Trips,” an essay in Cabinet on the history of comic foregrounds, those painted wooden facades with a hole where your head should be, offers an interesting meditation on the historic role of the comic foreground as vehicle for fleeting transcendence from one’s social stratum.

In her latest journal entry, “Time Wastes Too Fast,” for her ongoing NYT Pursuit of Happiness series, Maira Kalman visually portrays her visit to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia home, in which she offers twee renditions of the home that Jefferson designed, a note that he wrote to Adams, “I cannot live without books,” and touches on his conflicted relation to slavery.

And small non-journal-related aside: don’t bother trying to get your kids into Camp Quest, an atheist summer camp funded by Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, for tots who’d rather learn to disprove telepathy and crop circles than paint pottery. It’s filled for summer.

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Reasons you should read the long Sarah Palin profile in Vanity Fair.

Jeremy W. Eaton’s Cartoon Jumbles (more here).

Immigrants in the US are asking for money from home. WTF, America?

George Plimpton thinks Intellivision is superior to Atari in every way. (via HTMLGIANT)

How to create gourmet dishes out of fast food extra value meals.

The New York Times on the worth (or lack thereof) of your MA. Exactly what every Rumpus reader wants to hear. (via Gerrycanvan.)

“When I first went to work in Harvard’s Widener Library, I immediately made my first mistake: I tried to read the books. I quickly came to know the compulsive vertigo that Thomas Wolfe’s Eugene Gant, prowling the fictionalized Widener stacks, felt in the novel Of Time and the River. …more

“I do not have an iPod. The Walkman is 30 now. I resisted it, as I have resisted several new innovations. I still have an old cassette player. I like the comfort of things I am used to – smells, sounds, images. It is as though wrinkles tell so many tales and I like hearing the stories of a time gone by.

[The Walkman] made music mobile. … Music for me had meant something else.”

Author Farzana Versey remembers her Walkman.

Summer Thursdays are good for barbecues and movies. Take it from me.

The New York Times on the recent upscaling of the humble hamburger. Plus recipes.

Have some cheese with your burger, since your Cheese Problems Have Been Solved. (Paul Collins)

A three-minute excerpt from an interview with Wallace Shawn, from the new Criterion Collection release of My Dinner with Andre.

Werner Herzog’s jungle diaries, The Conquest of the Useless, has arrived in stores, and Green Apple Books spoofs Werner Herzog’s famous monologue on the “obscenity” of nature from Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams, to mark the occasion.

Been in the same apartment for a while? Skipped spring cleaning?A twenty-minute documentary about four compulsive hoarders in Britain will remind you to get rid of your junk this weekend.

San Francisco’s largest residential landlord is refusing to give back security deposits. CitiApartments is possibly going broke and, according to the head of the San Francisco Tenants Union, refusing to refund many tenants security deposits (he says they’re getting three to four complaints a week). CitiApartments’ buildings are filled with vacancies because their business model is purchasing buildings and then harassing and intimidating tenants into moving out so they can raise the rent. …more

At the bookstore I work at, we recently got in a HUGE shipment of remaindered books. Books by Michael Ondaatje, Virginia Woolf, Alain de Botton, all of them brand-new and at bargan-bin prices. Which begs the question, do all books, no matter how timeless, relevant or HOT, eventually become remainders? I think so. It means cheap, virtually new books for me and you and I don’t know what it means for the writer, living or dead. …more

One of the more anticipated summer novels of the season is also probably one of the longest, most disturbing and most intimidating: Imperial, William T. Vollman’s mammoth exploration of the U.S.-Mexican border in Imperial County, CA. Clocking in at about 1300 pages the hardcover edition will retail for $55.oo and probably take more than the rest of the summer to read, and more than two more winters to fully digest and appreciate. That’s how it goes with Vollmann though. …more

The title The Proposal has two meanings; it refers to the improvised marriage between shrew boss Margaret (Sandra Bullock) and exasperated assistant Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) devised to stave off her deportation, as well as to their jobs in the world of book publishing. But another possible title, The Sham, works equally well, not only to describe their romantic hoax but also the contrived, counterfeit nature of this entire cinematic enterprise. …more

Erotica Cover Watch has won a victory to get a man on the cover of an erotic book intended for women.

To celebrate they interview the publisher: “I did get that feedback from one of the buyers who felt it looked like a book aimed at gay men. We will have to see what our readers feel.”

Not really related: Who should book covers speak to?

It boggles my mind that Dario Argento directed a movie called Deep Red and it is not this picture. How is that possible? How could any movie not set entirely in a darkroom be more about the color red than this one? …more

“Seattle-based Amazon notified associates in Rhode Island and Hawaii that the company was no longer working with them as of Monday and Tuesday, respectively, because the states have passed laws to collect sales taxes on these transactions.”

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