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Brian Spears
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Libya Roundup
You can follow the Guardian’s live coverage here. Al Jazeerah is reporting that fighting has broken out near Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, but so far, no sign of Gaddafi himself. Two of Gaddafi’s sons, however, have been captured.. The Secretary-General…
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West Memphis Three Roundup
The West Memphis Three is shorthand for Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin, three men who were convicted of the 1993 murder of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. They were released yesterday after new evidence questioning their…
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Science Saturday
Physicists have figured out a way to stop coffee rings from forming, which is a bigger deal than you might expect. Stealing cars via text message. I expect this will appear on Leverage before too long. I linked to photos…
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Saturday Morning Links
Happy Saturday everyone! The splint is off, the coffee is hot, the English Premier League is streaming on my second screen, and I’m starting a new job on Monday. Look at these photos from inside the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. It’s…
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Science Saturday
Lovely photos of the Necklace Nebula. Some building blocks of DNA look like they originated in space. If you hear someone claim global warming violates the laws of physics (and that won’t be the weirdest claim, I’ll bet), here’s what…
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Saturday Morning Links
Brian here, blogging one-handed since ninjas tripped me Thursday and fractured my radial head (which sounds like what would happen if a particularly famous band where to talk about breaking up). I’ll try to keep it from slowing me down.…
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Rumpus Folks Get Some Love
You should check out We Who Are About To Die’s interview with Rumpus Music Editor Katy Henriksen where she talks about trying to balance writing and parenthood. And Ruth Franklin at The New Republic wrote a really nice piece on…
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London Riots Roundup
Riots have been going on for three days now in London following the killing by police of Mark Duggan. You can follow the Guardian’s coverage here, but here are a few other stories as well. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Really great piece by Tom Lutz in the LA Review of Books on publishing, newspaper, literature–it’s all over the damn place. But great. Elizabeth Powell on the poet as editor. Via Bookslut, there’s some real problems with the reporting in…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Brian here, subbing in for Seth who’s taking some well-deserved time off. It’s probably just a coincidence that he took off when there’s such a huge week for Rumpus Books. Yeah, that’s it. Come click through and see what Rumpus…
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What Went Wrong?
The Association of Writing Programs announced its accepted events for the 2012 convention in Chicago on Friday, and my Facebook page/Twitter feed blew up with joy and anguish alike. The panel I’d been asked to be a part of missed…
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Charles Graner is out of jail.
Does that name ring a bell? It was one of those names that I saw and knew I’d heard, but couldn’t immediately place where I knew it from. If it weren’t for the headline, I’d probably have never figured it…