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Another Bold Declaration About The YouTube Mash-Up
First, it ascended to high art with Kutiman’s assemblage of unrelated music clips into original jams. Now the ante has been officially upped by Darren Solomon, who combined twenty YouTube music clips into a sprawling, interactive, personalized Steve Reich-o-tron, right…
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A Kind Defense of the Kindle
Stephen Marche has an article in the Wall Street Journal about how, as of now, “the Kindle 2 will become the first e-reader available globally. The only other events as important to the history of the book are the birth…
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Health Care Links
“Lay of the Land,” a look at where the health care debate is right now. “Reid: I’m Discussing the Public Option With Democrats and Republicans” “If a new tax is passed and no one actually pays it, can it fund…
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FUNNY WOMEN #5: What We Were Really Saying
Me I verb you. Him I similarly feel for you in this way, but I’ll never say the word verb. I have feelings only only when I feel like it.
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One of These Things is Not Like the Others
Stephanie Johnson’s microfiction creates rich subtext in few words, making each story complicated and true, and each character alive and familiar.
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Google’s Unicorn Defense
This week in the New York Times, Google co-founder Sergey Brin wrote an op-ed about Google’s efforts in the realm of digitizing so-called orphan books. Despite ongoing legal drama, Brin insists that their efforts are for the good of everyone,…
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‘Why have novelists ceded their ground to science?’
“The last dozen years or so have seen the emergence of a new strain within the Anglo-American novel. What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or the psychological or confessional novel—the novel, at any rate, about…
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Random Media Notes
“New York Times to Layoff 100 Newsroom Staffers” “Glamour, Wired Take Latest Condé Hits” (via MediaBistro) The Washington Post has been redesigned. Amy Hertz, HuffPo’s new books section editor, says “This is NOT a book review section.” Barnes and Noble…
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Michelle Threadgould: The Last Zine I Loved, Cometbus #52: The Spirit of St. Louis
I grew up in San Francisco, the daughter of a man who arguably loved jazz music more than he loved me. So when I say that I grew up in San Francisco, what I really mean is that I spent…
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Morning Coffee
Aakash Nihalani’s tape art. Afraid that you’re unknowingly a sexist? Regender.com is here to help. The sound of trees. Aardman Animation and the Tate are teaming up to make a movie created by 10 year olds. Hey flavorpill, we want…