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The oldest Americans totally loved Stumptown Roasters. You Chose Wrong is your best Tumblr ever for the day. Here are some animal silhouettes. Good news: Google Street View can take…
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Post Haste
This month, the U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with its plan to cut service hours and close stores nationwide, despite the continued existence of exchanges, such as Postcrossing and…
A “Future of Digital Publishing” Article That We’re Actually Excited About
“It’s an LG-something. It flips. Lately, though, it’s a little sad because the flipping mechanism has gotten very loose so it’s more like a flap-phone. It just dangles out there.”…
Whose Opinion Is Missing?
Talking Points Media reports on the deficit of female op-ed writers, citing an assessment conducted by The OpEd Project. The article quotes Katherine Lanpher, a member of the organization, who…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news autumn babies, you are more likely to live to be 100. Elsewhere on New Scientist: Maybe Pluto is a planet after all! It’s time to map the internet.…
‘The The Angels Angels’ & Other Astrophysicist Baseball Observations
Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History. Author: Space Chronicle, The Pluto Files. Host: StarTalk Radio) on Baseball: > Tonight’s @AllStarGame compells me to Tweet what Baseball looks like through the…
Doctor Fraud
Back in a 2009, Zak Smith called out an unnamed celebrity doctor in his Rumpus essay on Sasha Grey. The physician in question, Drew Pinsky, is now under scrutiny “after…
SF vs. The Other Big Apple
Last week Apple computers pulled out of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). Apple, increasingly under pressure from environmental campaigners in recent times, may be on the outs with…
Joke or Invitation?
In a thought-provoking Daily Beast essay about Daniel Tosh’s “rape joke” at the Laugh Factory, Rumpus Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist clarifies the distinction between using humor “to cope or…
“Twitter For Authors”
The LA Times reports that Twitter has released a how-to-manual titled “Twitter for Authors.” The guide details six tips particularly geared towards writers, some of which include the not-so-helpful “Be…
Network Gender Balance
Should you seek a utopian, gender equal virtual space in which to social network, scribd, orkut, and foursquare are where it’s at. However, the internet vortex of social networking sites…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This makes so much more sense than homeless people: turning payphones into WiFi hubs! So, how did people get here? The Makedomium monument is the best. American things from the…