2011
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Hackers really do seem to be at war with each other. Latest target: Anonplus. Meanwhile, Anonymous claims to have a huge cache of NATO data. The first track from Bjork’s new interactive album, Biophilia, is available on iPad today. Chinese…
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Fables
Horrifying and humbling in their imaginative precision, the stories of Sarah Goldstein’s collection, Fables, awaken the tension between human and nonhuman in these haunting vignettes.
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Tweetin, Not Twitchin
What’s in a name? For companies like twitter, a lot of potential profits and some OED support. These are the reasons we’re not jittering or twitching, which were both potential candidates for the company’s name. You can follow the trajectory…
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22 Suggestions
HTMLGiant has 22 bits of submission-based knowledge that you can learn from/identify with, etc. No matter what your relation to submitting and publishing is, this list needs to be forwarded to the universe. This list will assuage the stress of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Holy cow, y’all check out Pluto’s new moon? Riding around the universe in Einstein’s tomb. Perhaps you want to build a bomb in the 16th century. Way to x-ray a sloth scientists. It’s nice to think about what might come…
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THE LONELY VOICE #12: Cheever in Albania Or The Lonely Voice Hates Travel Writing
There are few things more riveting than watching people gossip in a language you don’t understand.
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What do you do, and how do you do it?
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work is an anthology of short stories edited by Richard Ford that chronicle the ways in which our jobs–what we “do”–is inextricably intertwined with how we define ourselves–who we “are”. This collection…
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On SlutWalks
“This fall will mark the 20th anniversary of Anita Hill’s testimony before Congress about the sexual harassment she experienced while working for Clarence Thomas. Though Hill offered only her own narrative about the behavior she witnessed, her story helped other…
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Twain in Pictures
Mark Twain’s humor is post-age. His children’s book, Advice to Little Girls was published in 1865 and was a comedic gem amongst the moralizing, heavy-on-the-role-models books of the genre. His story is recast as a slideshow of illustrations by the…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The TSA’s days of checkin’ out your naked body are over (or so they say). Police departments nationwide are starting to use the iPhone’s biometric scanner app to ID suspects. Ooooh, a much less expensive (and quicker) DNA sequencer. A…
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A Private Life for the Memoirist
There are those writers that relinquish their private lives to the world, choosing to share the honesty of experience, which is often difficult for those family members and friends who were part of this experience. Changed names and confrontation come…