2011
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The end of an era: RIP Sidekick smartphones. The Google cloud failed for 40,000 users yesterday, but their data is backed up on low-tech tapes. Imagine how cool it would be to do high school physics experiments in space! Does not compute: Hulu…
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FUNNY WOMEN #47: Become a Woman Celebrated During Women’s History Month
As American women, we are privileged to have every March dedicated to our accomplishments. For thirty-one incredible days, we can walk into any elementary school classroom and see our sisters’ faces decoupaged on pink poster board alongside bullet points of…
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Walker Percy: A Documentary Film
In Win Riley’s fine Walker Percy: A Documentary Film, Walker Percy’s friends, family, and biographers discuss the life, work, and philosophy of the author of The Moviegoer, Love in the Ruins, and The Thanatos Syndrome. Most notable in the film…
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50 Watts
Friend, Rumpus contributor, and head editor of A Journey Round My Skull, Will Schofield, has moved his beautiful collections to a new site: 50 Watts. The site is, in a word, gorgeous. Enjoy.
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Lamp Literature
“There’s a mystery unfolding in the East Village. An unknown writer is serializing his or her new whodunit on the neighborhood’s streets, posting each page on a different lamppost.” Why post online when you can post on-light? (via PW)
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The Last Book I Loved: Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
To live as an outsider or outlaw is a lonely endeavor, but a group of outsiders becomes a community.
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While the Women Are Sleeping
Doppelgängers, ghosts, and philosophical riddles about the nature of identity make up Javier Marías’ new collection of short fictions.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is a thing: evil people living in modernist homes in popular films. Time marches along and before you know it there are no more WWI vets. NASA gets ready to crush a giant god damned can. Electric vehicles successfully…
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An Oral History of Myself #13: Mato
I went to a Catholic school. I was a shy kid and got beat up by girls. I would express myself through drawings; that’s how I made friends. So when I transferred to the public school in fifth grade I…