Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Researchers have created the first plastic computer processor. US intelligence agencies are using Google as a tool more and more . . . And Google Search now supports Cherokee. The…
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10/40/70 Contest
This coming Wednesday, March 30, a new 10/40/70 experimental film column will be published here at The Rumpus. In the spirit of the absurd beauty of spring, if you can…
Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: The Chronology of Water Kevin Thomas reviews the March Rumpus Book Club selection, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water, Rumpus-Comics style.
How to Get a Record Deal
Musician Peter Squires (who we interviewed in 2009) recently joined forces with Anne Marple to take on the RPM challenge. The challenge, which “is a little like National Novel Writing…
Where the Wild Pig Is
“At 82, children’s-book author Maurice Sendak has created a new wild thing—a pig who longs to party.” Meet “Bumble-Ardy.” (via PW)
Luuk Imhann: The Last Book I Loved, A Moveable Feast
I knew I would love A Moveable Feast, as it deals with Hemingway’s personal life as a young writer in Paris in the 1920s. The book isn’t regarded as fiction,…
You Know Butterflies’ Semaphore Graces It
Why We Make Gardens abounds with… lyricism and in doing so may serve as explanation. We make gardens and poems and art to achieve gentle charms of word and life.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We should have linked to this yesterday, but it’s never too late to look at Houdini’s prop list. Everyone needs some microscopic insect photography from time to time. On the…
MEANWHILE,
The Bolinas Winemaker
This piece was originally created for Pop-Up Magazine’s Sidebar show at SFMOMA on March 17, 2011. It appeared in a slightly different format and was accompanied by a soundtrack by…
Meanwhile,
The Bolinas Winemaker
Wendy MacNaughton illustrates the world of “The Bolinas Winemaker.” …more
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
New photo-sharing-location-based-social-media-venture-funded-start-up Color is making waves. While the idea is pretty cool, the $41 million thrown behind it raises more tech bubble questions. And of course, there are the inevitable parodies……