2011
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
The NY Times’ online subscription price is way more than other online subscription services, so why would people pay for it? Facebook removes around 20,0009 underage people from the site per day. Apple pulled the “gay cure” app after an…
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Sad Stuff on the Street
Sad Stuff on the Street is exactly it sounds like, pictures of sad stuff (like the broken rainbow umbrella above) on the street. Started by Greg Larson and Sloane Crosley (a short back-story of the site can be found here,…
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Roundup
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; as a person partaking in the national Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan that was implemented as part of the package, I see today as a day to celebrate.…
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“An Amazing Tale of Survival”
Dana Albarella James tells the story of her “life without a cell phone.”
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You May Say Fist, You May Say Teeth
The unsentimental and honest display of Levin’s attitudes towards loss – her own losses as well the ways that others grieve their lost loved ones – is both moving and strangely distancing, as if by holding her emotions to the…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Triggering Town
When I read Richard Hugo’s “The Triggering Town” essay some years ago, I understood it intuitively and from my own experience of writing.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Mid-century modern stained glass? Yes thanks. While we are on the subject, Christian Annyas has determined the average life-span of a Saul Bass logo. (via Letters of Note.) This light organ is pretty cool, you know? 50 Watts on “the…
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SMALL POTATOES:
This week’s stripSmall Potatoes by Paul Madonna Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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Trans-Love Energies and the MC5: The Blazing Revolution According to John Sinclair
“Poetry never sleeps.” -John Sinclair The best music and art erupts from immense suffering and revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love.
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“New York City Judge Rejects Google Books Deal”
“Saying Google Inc. had overstretched, a federal judge on Tuesday rejected a deal between the giant search engine and lawyers for authors and publishers that would have let the company make money presiding over the world’s largest digital library.” Big…
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Libya, Today
Conditions are deteriorating in Misrata. The NY Times is also updating regularly via The Lede. So is The Guardian. I suspect this is the way future newspaper reporting will be done–quick updates akin to the television news tradition of Breaking…