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Saturday Morning Links
This site was funnier when I thought it was a collection of email conversations from different people instead of some jerk just screwing with people who put up ads online. Now it’s just sad. Can’t afford a Kindle? WeFound has…
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The August Monthly Rumpus
WHERE: The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco WHEN: Monday, August 10, 7:00pm WHO and WHAT: Hilarious Music by DJ Real Short film by Wholphin Performance by yo-yo genius Doctor Popular Readings and performances from authors: Skip Horack, Joshua…
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The BRT: Trackless Light Rail
The New York Times this morning had an interesting story — the third in a series about stopgap measures that could limit global warming — about Bus Rapid Transit lines. BRT lines are wide, sealed-off lanes dedicated to large buses,…
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Squirrel Destiny: A Match Made in Heaven (Or, Rather, on the Internet)
All I know is, someone needs to hook up this guy:
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Don’t Be a Coward: The Rumpus Interview with Philipp Meyer
“All of us, all the time, are searching for some order in the world/universe/our lives. We’re searching for guiding principles and explanations. Especially in times of stress, we tend to find sayings, aphorisms, mantras to help guide us.”
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The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: The Rumpus Interview with Julian Rubinstein
Ten years ago today, Attila Ambrus (a.k.a. the “Whiskey Robber”), arguably the worst pro-hockey goalie in history, hastily twisted together a makeshift rope out of computer cables and bedsheets and escaped out a fourth story window of the Budapest City…
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The Thing Around Your Neck
In her new short story collection, The Thing Around Your Neck, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie moves back and forth between two continents the way she has in real life. Adichie depicts contemporary middle class Nigeria, as well as the…
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Up Yours Some More, Told You So Edition
So Richard Greenfield, the ding dong who predicted failure for Pixar’s oh-so-risky Up, and the NY Times media reporter who helped spread the false doubt with out question have issued an apology. Or at least, the reporter filed a new…
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Breaking Laws to Break the Story
Rupert Murdoch‘s U.K. tabloid News of the World, and its parent company News Group Newspapers (also owned by Murdoch), are under scrutiny after The Guardian reported that the group paid 1 million pounds (1.6 million dollars) in out-of-court settlements to…
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Meet John Craigie
Chances are you don’t know who John Craigie is. But rest assured, John Craigie wants to know you.
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Morning Coffee
How Metafilter beat the New York Times. Tearing down freeways could be the answer to all your urban traffic woes. In 2009 I’ve had the worst allergies of my life, still these pictures of pollen under microscopes are pretty dang…
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Childhood as a Branch of Cartography
“We have this idea of armchair traveling, of the reader who seeks in the pages of a ripping yarn or a memoir of polar exploration the kind of heroism and danger, in unknown, half-legendary lands, that he or she could…