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Jeremy Hatch
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We Choose the Moon
An interactive re-creation of the Apollo 11 mission, using archival radio, film, and photographs, is currently underway at We Choose the Moon (.org); if you can tune in around 1:00 today, the astronauts will land on the moon once more,…
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Irish Writers Online
When my wife and I signed the lease on our new place, we fell into a discussion with our new landlord about writing and writers; not surprisingly, he’d come to the Rumpus to check out my work, and ended up…
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Envisioning the PC Workstation, in 1968
“[Doug Engelbart], for those who haven’t heard of him, conceived of and then went on to invent much of what we value today in computing from the standpoint of the user. Networks, graphical computing, hypertext, the mouse — Doug’s the…
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This Suit Gets It
“We think that lasting relationships matter, and we share some basic beliefs: Talent is rare. Management’s job is not to prevent risk but to build the capability to recover when failures occur. It must be safe to tell the truth. We…
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It Has Ever Been Thus
“Printed books have been in existence for four hundred years at the most, and already they pile up in certain countries in such a way as threaten the old balance of the planet. Civilization has arrived at the most unexpected…
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An Author’s Experience of Cover Design
Earlier this month, the subject of book cover design, and who the final design should speak to, blipped across the blogs for a day or so after Seth Godin reasonably opined that the single purpose of a book cover is to…
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Infinite Summer Roundup
I’ve been collecting articles and links connected to the Infinite Summer challenge, and Infinite Jest itself, and three weeks in seems like a good time to share them: if you’d like to participate and somehow haven’t heard of it yet, there’s…
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The Past and Possible Future of Wikipedia
The London Review of Books recently published one of the best single articles I’ve ever read about the history and possible future of Wikipedia, in a review of Andrew Lih’s The Wikipedia Revolution. The LRB article, by David Runciman, starts…
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Decaying Socialism: Good For Struggling Writers?
Craig Fehrman’s post earlier today, The Freelance Life, got me thinking about something interesting I read in The Wreck of the Henry Clay last week. In a post from April 2003, entitled Marx’s Neurosis About Money, Caleb Crain quoted Edmund…
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The BRT: Trackless Light Rail
The New York Times this morning had an interesting story — the third in a series about stopgap measures that could limit global warming — about Bus Rapid Transit lines. BRT lines are wide, sealed-off lanes dedicated to large buses,…
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Childhood as a Branch of Cartography
“We have this idea of armchair traveling, of the reader who seeks in the pages of a ripping yarn or a memoir of polar exploration the kind of heroism and danger, in unknown, half-legendary lands, that he or she could…
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IKEA Hacker
Your night editor was MIA yesterday for a very good reason: he inadvertantly got locked into the Emeryville IKEA overnight, and in the end there was nothing to be done but curl up on a DALSELV (or anyway a JAREN…