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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Random Media Notes
Rupert Murdoch has vowed to charge for all online content. Partial-birther Lou Dobbs brags about support from CNN. HuffPo blogger slams HuffPo for headline: “What were you thinking?” (via Mediabistro) The O’Reilly, Olberman “truce” is in shambles: O’Reilly strikes back.…
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“Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”
Bobby McFerrin (yes, as in “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” Bobby McFerrin) demonstrates how the pentatonic scale is hard wired in all of us at the 2009 World Science Festival. (via @karllong)
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Vices vs. Olé
“I slam my fist on the table. ‘We need a book about the 7 Vices of Highly Creative People before the whole country ends up in a straitjacket!’ Bobby agrees enthusiastically, grabs a stack of napkins and begins writing. All…
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide
Ben Bachelder has been hitchhiking since 2000, traveling by thumb in “35 countries and six continents including Antarctica.” Over the years Ben has become a featured writer at digihitch, an online community for hitchhikers and self-described “site of subcultural movement.”…
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Harry Patch
Radiohead has released a new song titled “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” and is donating the proceeds to the British Legion (download it for £1.00). The song is “a tribute to the memory of Harry Patch, the last surviving World…
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Random Media Notes
Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott on online content theft and how it spreads. ESPN puts the squeeze on its employees’ twitter habits. Euna Lee and Laura Ling credit Clinton with ending North Korean “nightmare.” Chuck Norris is a birther, writes “I…
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Attack of the E-Readers
Looks like Amazon‘s Kindle has got some competition. Sony announced two new e-readers today, The Reader Pocket Edition and The Reader Touch Edition. The Pocket is small (5-inch screen) and lightweight, whereas the Touch has a (surprise!) touch screen, an…
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Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno
“Isabella Rossellini’s bizarre and hilarious look at sex in the natural world as she explores the mating habits of worms.” See more of Rossellini’s “Green Porno” here.
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China’s Statistics Poetry
“Life Some mock me for doing statistics Some loathe me and statistics Some don’t understand what statistics are Why is it that statistics Put a calm smile on my face? Because of statistics I can solve the deepest mysteries” A…
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Auto-Tune the News #7
“Texting. Rhyming. Pat Buchanan Fail.” The latest from The Gregory Brothers (read The Rumpus mini-interview with the group here).
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Thomas Pynchon’s Summer Read
Inherent Vice is “a noir-like novel set in Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s” that follows “a dope-smoking private detective named Larry ‘Doc’ Sportello.” It is 384 pages long and hits book stores tomorrow. An agency in LA…
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Rumpus Radio
The Lonely Voice has a podcast: tune-in to hear Rumpus contributor Peter Orner read and discuss the opening of John Edgar Wideman’s story “Welcome.” For more of Orner’s thoughts on Wideman, click here.