Find Out What Facebook Publishes About You and Your Friends
There’s a new online tool available thanks to developer Ka-Ping Yee that answers one simple but important question: “What does Facebook publish about you and your friends?” While the tool…
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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.
In Protest of SB1070
“That people should be legally required to show proof of citizenship is similar to the antebellum mandate that black people produce ‘free papers’ proving themselves not to be slaves. It…
n+Internet
Literary magazine n+1 is now online. The website will be “updated with new, usually web-only content at least once weekly.”
New York and San Francisco Readers
Looking for something to do tonight? Well don’t forget to check out Notable New York and Notable San Francisco throughout the week for fun events in your city. For example,…
Enforcing Etiquette on Twitter?
“A small but vocal subculture has emerged on Twitter of grammar and taste vigilantes who spend their time policing other people’s tweets — celebrities and nobodies alike. These are people…
Nick Lantz Gets Supersized
Don’t miss today’s Supersized Rumpus Combo featuring an interview with Nick Lantz, a review of his books, We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbor’s…
“Papers, please.”
Arizona News Links #2
A roundup of articles related to Arizona’s new draconian immigration law. A simple question: Is this even constitutional? Rachel Maddow discusses the “racist roots” and people behind the new law.…
The Passing of an “Angry Young Man”
Alan Sillitoe, whose “novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and short story “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” (1959) were regarded as groundbreaking in their portrayals of the…