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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Welcome to July 5th! Thanks to America, you are now missing limbs, hard of hearing, and hungover. Don’t worry. It’s still a fine day to read book reviews.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
MIke Chasar delves into a different side of pin-up poetry. Ron Silliman on the passing of David Bromige. Dale Smith has a few words to say on the latest salvo from Flarf and Conceptual Poetry practitioners. Harry Potter writes poetry.…
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“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 of their reasoning.
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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 out that new media isn’t the only group that likes…
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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 don’t doubt that Hank Hill would print out, photocopy, and…
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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 Murdock on the BBC show Coupling. But what exactly are…
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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 that I’ll take the side of a lawyer, but man,…
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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 in The Shining. Add to that rogue’s gallery of scenery…
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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 recently featured in Inc. magazine’s monthly column, “The Way I…