Scientists in Japan have discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces. No, I’m not shitting you. “Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks…
Though in a saner world, the people who made this decision would be considered one. “A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the…
“Somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” is not only the Last Poem I Loved, it also is actually the first. The way its writer (of whom I shall elaborate later…
We’re not quite halfway through the year and this has already been one of the most extreme weather years on record. And hurricane season just started. Nice collection of images…
Very often I will begin this link roundup with a joke about being hung over. None today, because I actually am hung over. Amazon’s Kindle store is selling spam, among…
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “Take Me Home” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! July 11th, 7pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Featuring spoken word performer Rich Ferguson and…
The best kinds of animals are transparent animals. Admittedly we should have linked to this yesterday: Nabokov maps out Bloomsday. Here is a website that is in french but that…
Feeling down about the stagnant state of your summer? These essays on failed vacations and un-fun trips will make you glad. Stories feature David Sedaris and David Foster Wallace, and…
It’s the 107th anniversary of everybody’s favorite James Joycian holiday! That’s right—Bloomsday, the 24 hr period in which Leopold Bloom makes his way through Dublin in Ulysses. One way to…
Revolutionary writing from Ché Guevara, Diary of a Combatant, is being published for the first time in Cuba. The diaries document Ché’s time in Cuba from 1956 through 1958 were…
James Yeh writes on the Spontaneous Society for Faster Times, Jon Cotner’s ambulatory, real-life interaction/art installation, inciting strangers to interact positively with one another. The project was created in hopes…
I’m probably way behind the times here, but I’ve just discovered this project by artist Megan Rosalarian Gedris in which she cross-dresses male superheroes. But she’s doing more than just…