The Kids Are Gonna Be Alright, But No One Else Is
“Because you can no longer gather thirty people to make one funny thing anymore — they’re all busy making their own funny things, online and alone. The Internet changed music…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Partially due to anti-porn Internet filters, the Canadian magazine The Beaver is changing its name. (via Silliman) The end was near, and now it is near, and damn it, why…
Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, Rumpus books published pieces about fucking and writing, A Common Pornography, and Folksy Fruit. Also, there was an interview with Jonathan Lethem.
SMALL POTATOES:
City Life
Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
It’s Saturday night and it’s poetry time. Who else is excited? I always figured the Irish got excited about poetry. Roddy Doyle says otherwise. I’m late to the game in…
Science Saturday
Flashier birds produce stronger sperm. I wonder how that would play out in human males? Hi-Res flyover pictures will help in the Haiti recovery. Satellite photos have been good, but…
Anthony Atala on Growing New Organs
From Ted.com, Anthony Atala demonstrates the medical technology that grows new organs from a body’s own cells, thus eliminating the problem of rejection.
Confusing Metaphor with Reality
In her scathing piece for Slate about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Dahlia Lithwick compares the Supreme Court’s actions to those of the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio, saying that…
Saturday Morning Links
What happens when Vanity Fair wanders into Kentucky to tour a Creationist Museum? Go see the destruction for yourself. Don “Moose” Lewis wants everyone to know that he’s not a…
Brent Hoff’s Sundance Rundown #3
Brent Hoff, editor and co-founder of Wholphin, is our official Rumpus correspondent at The Sundance Film Festival. OK, first off, I’m no scuttlebutt. If you want the super chill on…
Eyeglasses For Everyone; No, Really: Everyone
The Washington Post reports that an English physician, Joshua Silver, has designed eyeglasses that absolutely anybody in the world, no matter how poor, can afford, and he has plans to distribute…