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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The US government doesn’t like it when we steal things on the Internet, so it petulantly revoked a handful of domains. Comcast levies bandwidth fees on a company that delivers streaming Netflix content, threatening net neutrality yet again. Also in Netflix:…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Scientists have figured out how to make your DNA un-age itself (maybe). 1800s coffee packaging. Let’s talk about crazy-ass Brazilian sculptures and the bugs that inspire them. Children drawing the monsters of H.P. Lovecraft. Here is your food clothing photography…
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The Rumpus Interview with Michael Klein
Michael Klein is an award-winning poet and author whose poetry collections 1990 and Poets for Life are winners of the Lambda Literary Book Award. He lives in New York City and teaches memoir writing in the summer program at the…
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There Will Be Blood — and Power Ups
The epic, in (surprising metaphorically effective) 8-bit-ification.
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Jennifer Murray: The Last Book I Loved, The Physics of Imaginary Objects
It is late and I don’t know who I am anymore. My old life has been squeezed into an 8×10 square foot storage unit in Harlem and, barely two weeks into my voluntary exile in Buenos Aires, I have nothing…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/29-12/5
This week in San Francisco, booze for a cause at Drink Good Do Good, come hang out with me at this month’s Quiet Lightning, two words: Cinema Orgy, Booksmith’s first Literary Clown Foolery, Babylon Salon, and fund raise San Francisco…
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Wikileaks Embassy Cables Roundup
The decision by Wikileaks to release over 250,000 US Embassy cables is a threat to democracy. Or it’s no big deal. Or there’s nothing really surprising in there. Or it could bring down multiple governments and tear down the fabric…
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Come Away With Me
After the publication of Gomorrah, a journalistic and autobiographical work that focused on and infuriated Naples’ Camorra crime syndicate, author Roberto Saviano entered into 24 hour protective surveillance and a life of restricted freedom. In his new politically charged television…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #63
GLUE TRAPS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing glue traps.
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“Any liquor, narcotics, tobacco, firearms, or explosives?”
The New Yorker has dusted off a “selection of airport-security cartoons” dating back to 1938. (via TheMillions)
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Chats with Random Men #10: The Return of Kleber
Alina’s old friend Kleber returns for a random Facebook chat, this time with a little surprise.