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Dan Weiss’ Morning Coffee
Start your week off right with some toxic Hungarian sludge. Lapham’s Quarterly on floating cities, real and imagined. Concrete canvas is totally amazing. Vintage coffee tins! Hurray! Um, have you read about Googles robot car yet?
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Erika Lopez Builds Her Own Utopia
“Everything I’m trying to do is about working with love and integrity and a ferocity that takes over the existing status quo. I want this to be normal.”
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Here’s Some Stories I Like
For your Sunday evening perusal, here’s some very short and very awesome short shorts I liked. I hope you like them too. “That time your mother crashed the car into the Dairy Queen she had dropped her cigarette and was…
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Writing In The Buff
When Victor Hugo had writer’s block, “he had his servant take all of his clothes away for the day and leave his own nude self with only pen and paper, so he’d have nothing to do but sit down and…
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Robot Reporters and Automated Anchors
Hey, here’s something terrifying: To fill the void of the massive layoffs that have hit journalism, it appears that news outlets may be looking more and more to computers and even artificial intelligence to fill the void. Among the things…
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Ted Hughes On Sylvia Plath
“And I’d started to write when the telephone jerked awake, in a jabbering alarm, remembering everything.” — A lost Ted Hughes poem has been found, written on the topic of his wife Sylvia Plath’s death. (via)
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Hi everyone! Thought for the day: love is listening to your girlfriend laugh while she beats your stepdad at Hearts. And now, book blogs! “When I’m feeling stimulated, I like to read fiction, and when my life feels sterile, I…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Jonathan Farmer has some ideas on ways people can support poetry in the digital age. I really support his fifth one, which suggests getting web designers and programmers involved in the world of online poetry, because formatting a poem with…
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Do You Have Answers For This Teacher?
I could have linked to this in Poetic Lives Online, but I feel inspired by the Chaka Khan playing in the background to open it up to the Saturday crown. (Don’t ask me what I mean by that.) So a…
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Science Saturday
Fascinating presentation by Hans Rosling about how the world is winning the war on child mortality. Is water more common on asteroids than originally thought? Remember that story about the bees disappearing? There’s an answer. Drinking at the pub can…