2011
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WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE
The Wild BoyWhat is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics, one for each act. An extraordinary collection of freakish curiosities.…
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Is Reading Overrated?
“Let’s take the following, by way of almost random example, from Charles Kingsley: ‘Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.’ Gosh. Any living man? Any book? Nothing else can compete? Flowers? Sunsets? Palladian villas? Pastrami…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday is the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. I’m filling in for Seth today. Enjoy your Sunday!
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How Much Do Public Workers Earn?
Public worker unions are under attack across the nation, most notably in Wisconsin, where a group of Democratic State Senators have fled the state to stop a bill from being passed which would gut the ability of unions to bargain…
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Science Saturday
For the first time in history, we can see the sun in 3-d. Fish in the Hudson River can now store toxins in their fat. Good for them, not so much for the food chain. More evidence for the theory…
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Saturday Morning Links
Brought to you this week on an iPad, since my laptop is undergoing hard drive replacement surgery. We are hopeful for a swift recovery. Want to know what the real story is behind the Wisconsin union-busting movement? Ezra Klein has…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
More Middle Eastern countries are blocking some or all web access. Facebook has been cut in Libya and Bahrain is restricting Internet use. The creator of China’s so-called “Great Firewall”, which blocks access to hundreds of thousands of foreign sites,…
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Cheap Cab Rides: Friday Book Club Round-Up
Tao Lin gets mentioned in a Guardian article about the challenges of naming characters. “I chose names that would not cause the reader to feel like there was hidden meaning in them, or that the characters were symbolic or the…
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Now, Bahrain
The island nation of Bahrain is the latest to see significant protesting, and the government is pushing back hard. Mother Jones has the background you need. More background from Foreign Policy’s Toby C. Jones. As was the case in Egypt,…
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The Incomparable Grace of Print
Portugal has a new, staple-stitched, full-color, full-bleed newspaper that was just voted the best designed paper in the world: