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Saturday Morning Links
Lots of people, myself included, mocked NBCU’s decision to change the name of the Sci-Fi Channel to the “hipper” and more easily textable “SyFy.” Michael Hinman, who created the website SyFy Portal ten years ago (now named Airlock Alpha), has…
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Lost Books Live Online
A person named simply “Will” curates a blog devoted exclusively to the spectacular cover art and reprinted manuscripts of books that have fallen from memory. The site, A Journey Round My Skull, is described as “unhealthy book fetishism from a…
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Math Wrath
The bizarre, pixilated art to be found on MathWrath.com can’t really be explained, and probably shouldn’t be. Just take it in, and don’t miss a pixel. Via Beautiful Decay.
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Damion Searls: The Last Book I Loved, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Collected Stories
I could never tell him apart from the other ones, Asch and Abramovitsh and Aleichem and the rest. And those titles like “Gimpel the Fool,” straight from the old country? Well Singer, and the translator of “Gimpel the Fool,” some…
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Corey Arnold’s Fish Work
Thirteen years ago, photographer Corey Arnold took a job as a fisherman in Alaska as an adventurous way to pay off his student loans. The resulting photographs have been exhibited in galleries around the world, and have earned Arnold recognition…
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Sean Kim: The Last Book I Loved, Last Evenings on Earth
It used to be that exile was unique to small, tight knit immigrant communities, but now I know it’s just a condition of living in the world. Roberto Bolano proves it. For him, exile is a life lived in existential…
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So Many a Second
Nifty website alert! So Many a Second creates visualizations of statistics so you can perceive the scale of the number. There are categories, like environment (trees cut down is a shocking cascade of instanteously disappearing), and people (births per second…
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An Emergency Broadcast from Sugar: An Abortion Near Sarah Palin’s Front Lawn
Do what you can, forgive yourself the rest.
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Padma Viswanathan: The Last Book I Loved, Dancing With Cuba
The most recent book I have loved–a term I apply only to those few books that get a place in my personal canon–was Alma Guillermoprieto’s Dancing With Cuba. Guillermoprieto’s books are great but few, so I saved this most recent…
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They’re Called Cells for a Reason
A review of Micrographia People don’t read enough, and when they do, they don’t ask the questions of themselves that Micrographia demands.