2011
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Songs of Our Lives: You Are Not Me, Inlandia
I hate Dave Grohl. This is purely professional, of course. I hate that he and his Foo Fighting pals manage to produce relevant and irresistible art prolifically. I hate that they all have embraced growing older, but are still so…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
There’s a lot going on in the security world right now. First, Lockheed Martin was compromised. There was the series of Sony hacks, and the newest round of Gmail hacks. Then, just as a judge says that banks aren’t really…
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Do Not Screen
A found 16 mm film, chopped up. In color, silent, probably from the late 1940s. A warning (or invitation?) to “do not screen.” A unique activation code to bring the bring the film to life, fragment by fragment. This is…
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E.B. White and his Animals
E.B. White’s anthropomorphisms became childhood story staples, but they were also were a method of expressing himself to his family, and furthermore, significant in the evolution of nature writing. This essay in the Chronicle Review considers E.B. White’s relationship with…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Facebook is giving you the sads. This week in new iconic space pictures. Behold the first living wall painting. 60s and 70s French magazine covers will always make me happy. GE wants to show you some of Edison’s forgotten inventions.
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J. Donald Walsh, Jr: A Tribute
When Jeff Van Gundy, the Knicks’ scrappy underdog coach, resigned mid-season in 2001, he cited the loss of his college roommate in the World Trade Center attack as a primary factor. My morning commute at the time took me beneath…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Does Facebook’s new facial recognition system violate users’ privacy? One in 4 US hackers is actually an FBI informer. They’re testing out the new IPv6 internet protocol today. What can tech savvy political activists learn from the balloon info battle…
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To the Lighthouse Again
Helen Dunmore wrote the beautiful new introduction to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, published online by Granta, in conjunction with their latest, feminism-themed issue, The F-Word. The beginning of summer and the new intro are both reasons to revisit this…
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“Plenty of Sorrow to Go Round”
William T. Vollman critiques John Sayles’ A Moment in the Sun, a new novel from McSweeney’s about racism at home and imperialism abroad in turn of the twentieth century America.
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More Holiday Excitement
Harmony Holiday, the poet pick for this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book selection, was featured in the Boston Review for National Poetry Month, this past April. There are multi-sensory ways to experience her poetry and thus more reasons to get excited…