2009
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Morning Coffee
National Geographic on robotic animals. Also: 10 Tons make model planets, giant squids, dinosaurs, and more! Also Also: check out these pictures of a sperm whale eating a giant squid. In non-bad-ass-ocean news: Architectural Review looks at an award winning…
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RECESSION SEX WORKERS #5: The Rise and Fall of JT
If I’ve learned anything from interviewing JT, it’s that “no one ends up in the adult industry by accident” and “when you fall, you have to land somewhere.”
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Leone’s Dollars Trilogy Available Free on Hulu
Through the end of November, Hulu is hosting Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy for free viewing: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and — the greatest, obviously — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Since the films…
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Akashic Press Has A New Blog
“Living in Brooklyn (as 3/4 of the Akashic Staff does), discussions about Irony usually in end hipster-bashing sessions. Williamsburg is rendered as a mecca of self-posturing, detachment and apathy. It’s easy to be negative! Enter Trinie Dalton, who does the…
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Science Fiction Predicts The Present
“Science fiction writers don’t predict the future (except accidentally), but if they’re very good, they may manage to predict the present. Mary Shelley wasn’t worried about reanimated corpses stalking Europe, but by casting a technological innovation in the starring role of Frankenstein,…
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1989: Was It Really The End Of History?
“The basic point — that liberal democracy is the final form of government — is still basically right. Obviously there are alternatives out there, like the Islamic Republic of Iran or Chinese authoritarianism. But I don’t think that all that…
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Hate to Be Alone
The Rumpus and Wholphin present: Hate To Be Alone With Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted, Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, Melanie Gideon, author of The Slippery Year, Chelsea Martin, author of Everything Was Fine Until…
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The Blurb #12: On Disturbance
The deciders of the Publishers Weekly Best 10 list “ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz.” Which is kind of brilliant in a way. Because everyone knows if you ignore things, you can maybe make those things go…
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No Ordinary Pile of Index Cards
The novel Nabokov was working on when he died, The Original of Laura, is set to be released in the US on November 17th.