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2010
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
This morning, south Florida awoke to temperatures in the upper fifties. Panic ensued. There was a run on firewood and snow tires. Natives were seen frantically digging through closets for…
Why don’t McDonald’s burgers grow mold?
One of the most disturbing parts of the bonus section of the Supersize Me DVD is the experiment Morgan Spurlock conducts on McDonald’s sandwiches and sandwiches from other restaurants. He…
I Want to Read This Book
Here’s a brief review of The Anthology of Rap in New York Magazine, in which the reviewer claims Big Daddy Kane as the greatest rap lyricist of all time. I…
Science Saturday
Can science tell us about morality? Listen to Science Friday and find out. Great images of invasive species at the Wired Science blog. Lots of other great stuff too, including…
Saturday Morning Links
I turn 42 tomorrow, and so am having a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy themed party to celebrate. Do you know where your towel is? I really can’t think of…
Nancy Lili Gonzalez: The Last Book of Poetry I Loved, The Network
Jena Osman’s The Network is the best freaking thing I’ve read all year! Talk about brain arousal, wow. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever read before. It gave me nightmares the…
King of the Rats
Paranoid—From the greek: Paranoos, “distracted” from “para” irregular and “noos,” mind. There are rats in my garage. Boot-sized ones that run straight up the walls and then tiptoe along the…
Facebook and Twitter In the Back of the Class
According to Digital Society’s “Online services security report card,” which examines how vulnerable certain sites are to cyber-attacks, Facebook and Twitter are going to have to attend digital security summer…
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Radiolab recently covered one of the biggest, coolest technologies ever: cities. The Facebook mobile platform isn’t quite a Facebook phone, but it does a lot of stuff, like entice you to shop.…
The Last Book I Loved: What Was She Thinking?
I don’t usually see the movie and then read the book, but after reading Zoe Heller’s incredible character work in The Believers I had to read What Was She Thinking?,…
10 Mississippi
This book is seductive because, page by page, poem by poem, 10 Mississippi is cyclic and aswirl, is… as flowing and eddying as the river of the title.