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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Servers vs. Chainsaws
“The carbon footprint of data center server farms — roughly equal to that of paper mills today — is set to double in the next five years. And those server farms are often powered by coal, which tends to be…
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The History of Facebook
Facebook is the largest, fastest growing social site on the web, and yet its concept started in a college dorm room, and was (in part) modeled after one. Charles Peterson’s essay for The New York Review of Books, “In the…
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Recording Hunter
“It was a sound person’s nightmare/fantasy: squawking peacocks, refrigerator motors, thunderstorms, bug zappers, ice machines, phone calls from people in prison, seemingly random bloodcurdling screams, and the general din of vice.” In September 2002 Michael Wiese spent “a night at Hunter S.…
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Camo Cupcakes
Dear Marketing Assholes, We here at The Rumpus are pretty damn sick of things like the Dodge Super Bowl commercial (cleverly spoofed here), or any “modern men are emasculated” ad campaigns and/or business models. So believe us when we say,…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: Tape Deck Mountain Song: “Ghost Colony” [Tape Deck Mountain is playing tonight at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco as part of the Noise Pop Festival.]
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“What is the worst sentence you ever wrote?”
Jami Attenberg: “It’s hard to pick just one. I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse, and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me. What about, ‘He smiled quietly.’” Joshua Mohr:…
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“Zach Galifianakis” Interviews “John Wray”
Zach Galifianakis in conversation with John Wray, the author of Lowboy. (via Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
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Free Lipsyte
Author Sam Lipsyte has a new book coming out called The Ask. To celebrate the good folks at Farrar, Straus and Giroux are giving away signed copies of Lipsyte’s Home Land, Venus Drive, as well as The Ask, of course.…
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Google Facts
Profit: 2000= -14,690,000 2009=6,520,450,000 Pingdom has created a massive infographic filled with very interesting facts and figures about Google.
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Henry Chinaski’s Stamp
Are you a fan of Charles Bukowski? Want to see him get his own stamp? Over at PetitionSpot some folks are trying to make that happen: “Charles Bukowski is uniquely suited for this honor. For in addition to being an…
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2010 PEN/Faulkner Award Nominees Announced
The 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award nominees have been announced. They are: Sherman Alexie for War Dances Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna Lorraine M. López for Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories Lorrie Moore for A Gate at the Stair (read The…