2011
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NYPD/CIA Scandalous Surveillance
“A months-long investigation by The Associated Press has revealed that the NYPD operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government.” The NYPD is…
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Your Reading List is About to Blow Up!
At the intersection of the literary website and Pandora is your latest decision-making distraction: BookLamp.org. The new site uses an algorithm, taking your bookish preferences and turning them into an ultimate reading list, catered to all those literary themes for…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
What it’s like to play online games as a grownup. Why yes, NASA, I would like to look at an iridescent cloud. Forget the cane: A sonar glove for the blind. Google’s fiber-optic networks are blazingly fast.
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Remembering Jorge Luis Borges
Today would have been the 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges, the esteemed Argentine writer who championed the science fiction genre with his depictions of unreality. This is an archived Paris Review interview he did back in July of 1966…
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Struggling Bay Area Papers
Bay Area News Group is feeling the financial burden that is maintaining viable newspapers in this digital age. Thus, BANG is calling for some major restructuring, namely consolidating their eleven local newspapers into two regional ones and laying off 8%…
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Bayard Rustin, Unhidden
“Master strategist Bayard Rustin was Martin Luther King Jr.’s organizer for the 1963 March on Washington, but because he was gay, he has been hidden from history. Activist Stuart Wilber explains.”
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One of Us Is Already Gone
[York] never sinks into oblique facts, but he does not forget them, either. He never ignores the simple truth that he is writing poetry, and crafts a collection that is moving and substantial.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Start things off classy with vintage feminine hygiene product ads. Anyone want to take a road trip up the glass beach with me? Elephants understand. Invasive species gardening as contemporary art. The number one thing I’ve learned today is that…
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From NaNoWriMo To 6-Figure Advance
Erin Morgenstern’s novel, The Night Circus, will debut in September. Beginning as manuscript for National Novel Writing Month in 2005, and subsequently rejected by 30 agents, the novel has won a six-figure deal. The Wall Street Journal examines Morgenstern’s role…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Facebook is changing its privacy settings … again. Thinking about making an iPhone app? Here’s an infographic on how to make yr tiny icon look just like everybody else’s. Art gallery displays new piece: a hard drive containing $5 million…