Media
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Cash and Cars: Formula 1 Bahrain
Rising in front of us, surrounded by nothing but miles of empty sand, is the Bahrain Formula 1 racetrack.
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Detroit’s Brewster Projects: What’s Left
Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and Mary Wilson lived out their early lives in the Brewster Projects in Detroit, the first federally funded public housing for African Americans. Unfortunately, the abode of these legends of the lyric is falling to pieces.…
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I Want You to Want Me
What stopped me was the fact that Nomadagascar was not just another attractive stranger on a dating website. I had seen this photograph before. His real name is Jonathan Harris, and I was familiar with the artwork to which his…
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Getting The Most Out of Your Social Network
How to get the most out of social networks and not annoy users. (via Mashable) Note, The Rumpus doesn’t do any of this. If you sign up for our Facebook Group, or Twitter feed, or if you’re a friend of…
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The Shorty Q&A With Parry Gripp
Parry Gripp’s YouTube hits include Shopping Penguin, Spaghetti Cat, and Hamster on a Piano. He’s been called a Weird Al Jankovic for the internet age. But it might be more accurate to say that Parry Gripp a leading light of…
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Function Follows Funmaking
Need tips on concealing erections, sucking face with a flourish or setting a classic dinner table in three minutes or less? Visit Howcast.com, a site, founded in 2007 by defectors of YouTube and Google, packed with short, campy instructional videos…
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The Daily Dish
Andrew Sullivan , one of the most popular bloggers in the world, is a bundle of contradictions – gay, conservative, Catholic. Though British (and Oxford-educated), Sullivan now writes primarily about American politics from his base at The Atlantic in D.C.…
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Conversations about the Internet #1: The Rumpus Interview with Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone
Biz Stone is the creative director and co-founder of Twitter. He also helped create the blogging platform Xanga and is the author of the books Who Let The Blogs Out?: A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs and Blogging: Genius…
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Scram Magazine
Scram, started by Kim Cooper in 1992, is a magazine “dedicated to unpopular culture.” They have some blogs, and they also have published a few books. They “chronicle the neglected, the odd, the nifty and the nuts.” So, we’re comrades.…
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The End of Mass Media
“Once Al Gore gets the fiber optic highways in place,” writes Crichton, “and the information capacity of the country is where it ought to be, I will be able, for example, to view any public meeting of Congress over the…
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True/Slant/Hmmmm
It’s worth applauding the creative efforts behind True/Slant. It’s a website founded by a former AOL executive who’s hired 65 “knowledge experts.” “Knowledge experts,” in this context, means professional journalists or commentators, some of whom work for the New York…
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Morning Coffee
1930’s Spanish low-budget Art Deco. Sometimes it’s hard to fight the temptation to turn this whole section into awesome pictures of typeface. Leaked audition tapes for the National Organization for Marriage’s new anti-Gay Marriage ad. Street With A View introduces…