2011
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Meme alert: The @BronxZoosCobra is making waves on the internet after a real cobra from the real Bronx Zoo went missing. MIT has designed an artificial “leaf” that produces energy from sunlight and water. Tweeting has been deemed not broadcasting…
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NY Times Rape Reporting, Redux
In other words: clothing, age, behavior—none of those things have the slightest significance to what was done to this child.
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“Here I can muse in my books…”
“I feel comfortable in my limited space and fear that if I leave the ship for too long or go too far, it may sail without me, and that then I would be lost in the real world that I…
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FUNNY WOMEN #49: RE: Interesting Article
Dad, Thanks so much for your most recent email! It’s been awhile since we’ve last spoken (no hard feelings, it was White Sox season, I know), so I can hardly express how great it was to see your name in…
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“SF Bay Guardians”
“Our relationship with the police department is tenuous at best.” Justin Juul investigates the world of San Francisco’s “real life super heroes.” The piece includes excellent illustrations by our own Jon Adams, as well as enlightening facts about taser knuckles.
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Covering 1Q84
The cover for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, which was designed by Chip Kidd, has been revealed.
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The Free World
In David Bezmozgis’s first novel, the Krasnansky’s, a family of Soviet émigrés, wait in Italy for permission to move to North America, the Free World referenced in the book’s title.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
First things first: 100 ways to spell Qadhafi. (via Gerry Canavan.) Billheads of distinction! There are things in the world I can’t not link to, this history of skeletal drawing is a good example. Japanese posters of the Avant-Garde (hurray!).…
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Cairo: Scenes from a Revolution
“All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people. They should begin with a psychological chapter, one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly…