Morning Coffee
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Morning Coffee
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. Case in point: a swimming pool made out of dumpsters.…
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Morning Coffee
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 you have both way too much money and freetime. A…
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Morning Coffee
How Metafilter beat the New York Times. Tearing down freeways could be the answer to all your urban traffic woes. In 2009 I’ve had the worst allergies of my life, still these pictures of pollen under microscopes are pretty dang…
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Morning Coffee
70 golden cages of light in Northern France. We’re not sure what the point is, but it certainly is pretty. In Oslo they are building new crystaline skyscrapers. Meanwhile, in Hiroshima, they are going in the opposite direction. The worst…
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Morning Coffee
Did you know that in the 1950s and 60s the CIA used prostitutes to test out the possible mind control effects of LSD on the general populace. Operation Midnight Climax has all the details. (via Metafilter.) While we’re on the…
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Morning Coffee
Sarah Palin threatens to sue the Internet. (we don’t generally go here, as this is plenty covered on Huffpo and everywhere else, but when someone threatens to sue the Internet we take it seriously.) The purpose of a book cover.…
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Morning Coffee
Pictures of people looking at monuments. Eventually all of photography will just fold into itself. Using Google Earth and the country of Slovenia to create a satelite alphabet. (via Metafilter.) Did I just mention Slovenia? That must mean it’s time…
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Morning Coffee: Science Edition
Hey there July, how are you today? Steven Pinker picks his three favorite pieces of science writing for 3quarkdaily. (via Metafilter.) Bacteria as psychedelic art piece. Scientists have developed a way to fuel hydrogen based engines on chicken feathers. I…
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Morning Coffee
It sure is hot these days. Wired on the personhood of whales. A famous person has died. DJs buy own music using stolen cards. The coolest bridge in the entire world: the Falkirk Wheel. IFC on the greatest movie trailers…
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Morning Coffee
Investigative linguist discovers first known use of “Ms.” in print. (via @randomdeanna) Kush, sleep support for your breasts. An interview with Nic Brown, author of Floodmakers. Disappearing on sex weekends, Republicans like to lie, “I’m working on a book.” Banksy’s…
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Morning Coffee
Wes Anderson on screening Rushmore for Pauline Kael. (thanks Craig) Hey, City of Toronto, you can do better than this. Chicago’s South Side nightclubs in the 1970s. The inventor of instant noodles answers the age-old question: Should I quit my…
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Morning Coffee
A brief history of Kodachrome, the iconic film that didn’t quite make it to its 75th anniversary. Department of bummer: dinosaurs may have been much smaller than we thought. Ground Zero: 1945 is a collection of drawings and paintings by…