August 2012
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I imagine you’ve been wondering how sperm whales sleep. You know what are crazy? 3D printers are crazy. Perhaps you’ve been wanting to name a flower. Good news! Very old tea. Let us now consider advances in Olympic photography (while…
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Neil White
Fifteen years after serving my time, I still think about prison and the ways in which it might have affected me.
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We Can Be Heroes
“Poems are made of words that live in bodies — bodies shaped by line breaks, and fixed forever in space, on the page. Picture a gymnast in relation to the trampoline, the invisible line between the two driven equally by…
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Community Bookstore 2.0
The Washington Post reports on the efforts to save a bookstore near and dear to the hearts of many Bay Area residents. Until its first closure in 2005, Kepler’s Books had been a Menlo Park institution since it’s founding in…
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Dissecting the Hack
At Wired, Mat Honan shares an in-depth account of being hacked, revealing how security flaws in the online ecosystem contributed to the destruction of his entire digital life. “In short, the very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to…
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Drinking the Seagull
At the end of his first day on the raft, as the light dwindled to nothing and the chill of night settled around him, did he close his eyes and wish for sleep, wish for dreaming, wish to somehow be…
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Former Eagle Scouts Fight The Boy Scouts Of America’s Anti-Gay Policy
Maggie Koerth-Baker documents the ongoing confrontation centered around the Boy Scouts of America’s anti-gay policy. Many former Eagle Scouts are combating the policy by writing to the Boy Scouts of America and returning their badges, an effort that is being…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Things that are good about the world today: micro-libraries and baby weedy sea dragons. Let’s all enjoy some defaced album covers. Is it just me, or has it been ages since I’ve linked to awesome old natural history drawings? On…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #37: The Age of Fine Arrangements
Cuddle Magic, in my opinion, is the band most likely to succeed, these days, if by succeed you mean getting a leg up, surpassing the modest touring-all-the-time-not-making-very-much-money-hustling-constantly model of the thing.
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Mark Twain, Silent Movie Star
Check out the “only existing footage” of iconic American author Mark Twain – a silent film snippet from 1909 taken at Twain’s Connecticut home by his friend Thomas Edison. (Via The Atlantic)
