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FUNNY WOMEN #149: Pilgrims Without Internet

  • Kristy Eldredge
  • January 31, 2017
The use of barn animals in unusual poses could be so amusing if transmitted broadly and with a sharp message! But that is not to be, and I must express my feelings, as usual, in cross-stitch.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Tommy Pico

  • Michaelsun Stonesweat Knapp
  • October 15, 2016
The more of us there are out here sharing our work and telling our own stories and flying our freak flags, being our intricate, strange, and idiosyncratic selves, the less power the monolith has.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • July 19, 2016
If you give a mouse an Orson Welles film, he might solve human consciousness. Your great-great grandkids might text from the grave. What Westerners consider universal about music: totally incorrect.…
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English Is Not Dying, You Elitists

  • Katie O'Brien
  • July 1, 2016
Pop linguist Gretchen McCulloch unpacks the many wrongful assumptions about language behind the idea that emojis will cause the “death” of the English language: No, English is in ruddy good…
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Colorful Language

  • Brandon Hicks
  • November 15, 2015
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • August 5, 2014
THIS. THIIIISSSSS. And this history of “This.” Can Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) save the crumbling ivory towers of higher education? “Tech companies, in their many guises, always tell stories…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • July 29, 2014
Examining the troubled origins of our search for technological utopia. Autocorrect is our favorite fall guy for texting errors, but it’s also the reason you can text. What is worth…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • June 24, 2014
You may never need to text words again. Except the word taco. Still no taco emoji. Wikipedia tries to better itself. Still not allowed as a source in college papers. The…
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Texting with bell hooks

  • Mary Allen
  • June 16, 2014
Ever find yourself in a risky situation where you are being asked to give your number to a not-so-awesome-but-also-frightening-and-possibly-aggressive person? Here’s your solution! Give out this number instead and avoid…
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Online Romance…from 150 Years Ago

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • July 30, 2013
From its title (Wired Love) to its tagline (“‘The old, old story’—in a new, new way”), this Ella Cheever Thayer novel from 1880 sounds surprisingly modern. Substitute texting for telegraphs…
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