2011
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A New Frontier in Copyright Infringement
According to Discover magazine, last year, Craig Venter and his colleagues inscribed a passage from James Joyce into the genome of a synthetic microbe. Apparently, after the microbe hit, the Joyce estate sent Venter a cease and desist letter, claiming…
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Science Saturday
Very faint traces of radiation from Japan have been detected in Sacramento. If you’re still not sure just how a nuclear reactor works or exactly what’s going on in Japan, Wired Science has a good, basic rundown for you. National…
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THE LONELY VOICE #9: We Don’t Have to Live Great Lives
I spent most of today re-reading Andre Dubus’s “Voices From the Moon”.[1] It is one of those stories. When you finish it you concentrate a little harder on your own breathing because you feel a little more alive. Because you’re reminded…
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Saturday Morning Links
Tonight, Supermoon! I would like to note for the record that I am excited for this because of how cool it will look, and not for any astrological reasons. About that NY Times paywall, this doesn’t seem like the most…
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Happy Hour: The Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
The Rumpus Book club reveals how Jim Shepard might just be your favorite catastrophist. Lidia Yuknavitch‘s sentences can be rambling and unorthodox, says Books and Brews blogger of her new book The Chronology of Water. “Easily the most important thing…
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Egyptian Books Thrive at Abu Dhabi Book Fair
Despite concerns that upheavals in the Arab world would interfere with Abu Dhabi’s International Book Fair, the fair so far has been successful and relatively problem-free. In fact, more books and more publishers from Egypt are participating in the fair…
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Dom-Mom Love
We mentioned the new site Tits and Sass earlier today, and already they are posting great articles, like this conversation between Bettie, a dominatrix, and her mother, a preacher. Bettie’s mother says, “I understand that on some levels I am…
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The Rumpus Interview with Greg Gerke
Greg Gerke is the author of There’s Something Wrong With Sven. He also helps run a reading series called Soda Series at Soda Bar in Brooklyn Heights, edits very short fiction for Artvoice, and is a member of the National…
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Al Jazeera English
Will the recent visibility of Al Jazeera English in the wake of the Egyptian revolution translate into more American viewers? Two communication researchers at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, William Youmans and Katie Brown, tested how receptive Americans might…
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A Few of the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
All around the world, some of the most spectacular buildings you will find are libraries, such as the one above, the Rijkmuseum Library in Amsterdam. Or this one, Jay Walker’s personal library:
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Tits and Sass
“We come from different backgrounds and locations, work as strippers, porn performers, pro-dommes, prostitutes, and have a love of ripping apart stereotypes. This is our space for calling out pop culture fails, celebrating sex worker culture, and talking shop.” It…