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On Sawing Goethe
I received a wonderful email yesterday from illustrator Sophie Blackall. She kindly agreed to let me share that email, and her photos:
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What They Forgot to Mention About Olympic Skier Julia Mancuso
This winter’s Olympics have seen the usual sentimental media saturation of weepy or aw-shucks back stories on the athletes.
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Google Facts
Profit: 2000= -14,690,000 2009=6,520,450,000 Pingdom has created a massive infographic filled with very interesting facts and figures about Google.
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Thousands of Authors Opt-out of Google Book Plan
Digitized books, whether they be in kindle form or otherwise, are more than just a fad, and although Google Books is growing by the day, many authors have recently chosen to opt-out of Google’s ever-expanding digital library. The dissenting authors…
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Live Rich, for a Good Cause
For one night next week, March 4, in support of literature, the arts and Canteen’s writing program for Harlem youth, Arnold Lehman and his wife Pam Lehman will open their Brooklyn Heights home for an intimate evening: Canteen Magazine’s Second…
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Morning Coffee
The tragedy of umbrella genocide. If you should find yourself in Ahrensburg, Germany, perhaps you’d like to check out the Flour Art Museum. Also, in the above situation, you’d probably be able to read the text that goes with these…
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A Trip to Las Vegas: The Adult Entertainment Expo
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” And thank god for that. My back had been killing me since I boarded the plane for Las Vegas and I was…
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Flash vs. HTML5
Over on TechCrunch, one of the developers who helped build the Flash platform was asked to speculate about the technical future of web content — essentially, whether he thinks the Flash platform will be made obsolete as HTML5 is adopted.…
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“Poem For Dad,” a Rumpus Original Poem by D. W. Lichtenberg
Poem For Dad My brother called me up on the phone and said Hey Dan dad called me up again. He’s worried about you again, man. Isn’t it about time you started doing something with your life? Like, you know,…
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“Poem For Dad,” a Rumpus Original Poem by D. W. Lichtenberg
Poem For Dad My brother called me up on the phone and said Hey Dan dad called me up again. He’s worried about you again, man. Isn’t it about time you started doing something with your life? Like, you know,…