The Hitchhiker’s Guide
Ben Bachelder has been hitchhiking since 2000, traveling by thumb in “35 countries and six continents including Antarctica.” Over the years Ben has become a featured writer at digihitch, an…
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Harry Patch
Radiohead has released a new song titled “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” and is donating the proceeds to the British Legion (download it for £1.00). The song is “a tribute…
Random Media Notes
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott on online content theft and how it spreads. ESPN puts the squeeze on its employees’ twitter habits. Euna Lee and Laura Ling credit Clinton with ending…
Attack of the E-Readers
Looks like Amazon‘s Kindle has got some competition. Sony announced two new e-readers today, The Reader Pocket Edition and The Reader Touch Edition. The Pocket is small (5-inch screen) and…
The Wind Has Stopped Blowing (Your Pockets Are Filled With Wind)
It’s April and I’m back home for Passover and Easter and my brother’s birthday. I’m wandering my parents’ farm. The air is cold and I expected warm, the trees are…
Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno
“Isabella Rossellini’s bizarre and hilarious look at sex in the natural world as she explores the mating habits of worms.” See more of Rossellini’s “Green Porno” here.
Morning Coffee
Seven unmade Kubrick movies. Kitten calender graffiti. Sorry, let’s try and smarten this thing up: a concise history of light and particles. Slate on the history of airport design. Instructattoos.…
Movies Briefly: New Muslim Cool
One of the highlights of this year’s San Francisco International Film Festival was the documentary New Muslim Cool, by director Jennifer Maytorena Taylor. It’s about Hamza (Jason) Perez, pictured above…
Folded Paper II: Junior Jacquet
Some evoke the moai statues on Easter Island; others seem to be the spitting image of George Bush. Yet these little gems are made from (ready?) toilet paper rolls. Toilet…
Douglas Rushkoff and Life, Inc.
“For me, the idea of selling out was the worst possible thing,” says Douglas Rushkoff during a discussion with friend and fellow writer Walter Kirn one recent evening at an…
China’s Statistics Poetry
“Life Some mock me for doing statistics Some loathe me and statistics Some don’t understand what statistics are Why is it that statistics Put a calm smile on my face?…