Nasty Ancient Graffiti
“Good luck on your resurrection.” I09 has compiled ten pieces of ancient graffiti translated into modern terms. (Via Bookslut)
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On the “Elf Slaves of Online Shipping”
“It’s worth considering how the hell those goods get to you, so fast, and for free, when the company you bought them from is posting profits in the millions, or…
FUNNY WOMEN #70: Top Vaginal Scents for the Holiday Season
Okay, ladies, you’ve read our tips on pleasing your man in the bedroom, but over the years many of our faithful readers have written in with the same concern:
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hooray for bio-luminescence! Way to go Dalton Trumbo. Hey look, the awesome Paleofuture now in tumblr form! Catalan edible jewelry. Important: fish hatcheries are speeding up fish evolution.
Aimee Bender on The Situation in American Writing
Aimee Bender responds to Full Stop’s Situation in American Writing survey. Bender discusses literary criticism’s transition to the Internet, the political tendencies of American writing, and whether she imagines a…
Notable San Francisco: 12/19-12/25
This week in San Francisco-entertain yourself in prep for merry you-know-what. Monday 12/19: December’s Porchlight Reading Series is happening at Verdi Club.
Notable New York, This Week 12/19-12/25
This week in New York, a reading at The Poetry Project, Digable Planets at Brooklyn Bowl, Page Meets Stage with Jeffrey McDaniel and Amber Tamblyn, The Soundtrack storytelling series, and…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are the best thing that happened in the natural world in 2011 (spoiler alert: a sloth yawns). We are totally about to build the world’s second largest structure. Here…
No More Kisses for Oscar Wilde’s Tomb
“On her blog, ‘A Love Letter From London,’ an architectural historian named Lisa Marie, who blogs under the name Miss Marie, wrote that ‘the continued devotion of Oscar Wilde’s fans…
Science Saturday
So glad that Wired Science didn’t title this piece “A Star is Born” because that would have been really cheesy. X-Men bacteria Comet Lovejoy is pretty badass. The National Institutes…
Saturday Morning Links
Tonight, I will be geeking out hard. There will likely be evidence of this on my various other interweb presences. Klingons are involved. Gene Marks, writing for Forbes, informed the…