“If it’s not online, it’s invisible”
The Oxford University Press is in favor of the Google book settlement, and the title of this post sums it up pretty well. But I’ll give you a bit more…
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Come On and Take a Free Ride
Anyone who even remotely follows the debate over old media versus new has heard the refrain by now–bloggers and aggregators are parasites who are killing their hosts. But it turns…
Charcoal versus Gas
Grilling is such a big deal that Mike Judge built an animated series around the charcoal versus propane debate twelve years ago and the show is still going strong. I…
Ironic Processes
Harvard University psychologist Daniel Wegner is trying to figure out why we can’t stop ourselves from doing stupid things while under stress, a trait exemplified by the character of Jeff…
Saturday Morning Links, Independence Day Edition
Olay, I confess–there’s nothing particularly “Independence Day” about this linkfest. Except for this story about the history of preserving the original Declaration of Independence. But that’s it. Onward! It’s rare…
THE EYEBALL: There Will Be Blood
Sometimes I just want an actor to take a movie by the fuckin’ balls. I’m thinking of Benicio del Toro in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or Jack Nicholson…
How Matt Mullenweg Works
The founding developer of WordPress — the open-source blogging software that The Rumpus runs on, as well as millions of other great sites (including the New York Times!) — was…
Evening Cocktail
Soon, you will go off and have an awesome weekend. But in the meantime: It seems that orange jumpsuits are de rigeur for performing autopsies of large animals. Some of…
Look at How Much Fun We’re Having!
As you no doubt know, we’ve got another Rumpus event coming up this Tuesday, July 7, in San Francisco: Sex, Music, Comedy night with Jill Sobule. We’ve got a bunch…
Recession Strippers #1: The Laura Beth Experience
Dancers always want to quit but rarely do. The cliché is that sex workers are stuck. But, it’s more complex than that. Dancers quit for years but always come back…
Loitering in the Wrong Places
The book, with its halting, unbeautiful, disjointed lines, proves her awareness of the difficulty of writing poetry about war, trade, immigration, Hurricane Katrina, and George Bush. These are intensely politicized…