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New Scientist on the further uses of sticky tape. Yiorgos Yiacos has designed a set of prints based on fables. They are pretty sweet, you know, if you’re into that…
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Jeff O'Keefe Jeff O'Keefe's fiction has appeared in New England Review, Epoch, Swink and elsewhere. He works in advertising and teaches fiction writing at Stanford University.
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The most beautiful flowermart in the world. “Aldous Huxley vs. George Orwell” (no this isn’t the same link as the other day, thanks for asking.) “Eric,” a story in pictures…
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“In 1873, they reunited in Brussels, but it took only two days before Verlaine bought a gun and got drunk and shot Rimbaud in the wrist.” LA Times on famous…
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Carnivorous Mexican squids, mysteriously leaving their home waters, have been attacking divers off the coast of San Diego. There is a parable here but I’m having trouble finding it. Have…
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today is going to be one of those days. Sometimes life seems pretty hard, but at least demons aren’t coming up from the ground. See also: THE DOOR TO HELL…
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Vanity Fair edits Palin’s resignation speech. Maybe you’d like to think we are above such things, this is not the case. Panda elephants! “God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks.”…
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Environmental Graffiti on the natural beauty of Antelope Canyon and the man-made awesomeness of demolition. While we’re on the topic, here is an article about giant balls of fire in…
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Moleskine’s are kind of an amazing fraud, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to go to the official Moleskine 2.0 Exhibition. Speaking of frauds, an Australian town has banned…
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Whoops… Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes. Your cat is smarter than you think. On the anti-Nazi photomontages of John Heartfield? Not enough pictures of terrible people to start…
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Social networking sites as art installation. Light-test.com collects photographer’s, uh, light tests. The results are playful and fascinating. A Journey Round My Skull takes a rare trip outside its selfimposed…
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The Big Picture on the 2009 Venice Biennale. Andreas Gursky‘s photographs of enormous scale. More on Hemingway being a failed KGB spy. (bonus music link.) Brooklynites are an ingenious sort.…
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Beef up your art history skills. (via @misskatewatson) Hemingway was a spy for the KGB? Garfield Minus Garfield (highlighted by our own Rick Moody). Dolphin inspired personal submarines: for when…