Life Stories Roundup
In this week’s roundup, there’s a late night talk show host with a following of occultists, conspiracy theorists and would-be time travellers, a wannabe Warhol with his own hippie art collective…
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Researchers Show How to Hijack Clicks on Facebook
CNET has a short piece up about a number of security vulnerabilities on Facebook that have recently been demonstrated by researchers — and they’re more serious than the notion that…
Neil Gaiman: Goth’s Mainstream Success
While many artists with cult followings seem to develop them by maintaining an air of mystery, Neil Gaiman has done so by connecting directly with his fans. When sales of…
The Last Book I Loved: In The Woods
I’m not a fan of murder mysteries. Truth is, I just don’t care why someone murdered someone else. Plus there’s the violence (grisly), the sex (cop-on-cop, cop-on-suspect), the conventional motives…
Tresky Plesky or Kvanki Vanki
International children’s books from the collection of Rilla Alexander:
The Latest from Haiti
Haiti tries to go from rescue to recovery to relief. And if you’re looking for people to follow via Twitter, Jay Newton-Small, the writer of the above piece is a…
Morning Coffee
Today’s theme is things that are good. These appeal to me on at least three levels: 1980’s subway photography. The top fonts of 2009. “The primary goal is to change…
The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem
"I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working."
The Eyeball #31: The Baader Meinhof Complex
On New Year’s Day this year I removed all the bookmarks from my Firefox bookmarks bar. When I mentioned to a couple friends that my resolution was to lay off…
(Mistakenly) Miss the January Monthly Rumpus?
Read about it and see video here, thanks to Evan Karp of The SF Examiner. He condenses the whole night: “I think everyone had fun. I know I did. The main…