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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If I am reading this right, all IT people are autistic. I would like to live my life inside a converted French Art Deco swimming pool. Behold the Russian Wizard of Oz. (via BibliOdyssey.) Holy cow, memory implants! Most importantly:…
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Dad & Daughter: Nine Years of Bedtime Stories
Happy Father’s Day! Here’s a feel-good daddy story from NPR: When Alice Ozma was a fourth-grader, she and her dad, Jim Brozina, made a pact to read together every night for 100 days. At the end of the 100 days,…
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Tortuous Dictionary Definitions
“The notorious definition for door runs to 72 words, written as if the dictionary’s audience were Martians who had never encountered human-made doors. The single statement for hotel is even more bizarre: weighing in at 91 words, it manages to…
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Recycling-Plus!
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 based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the…
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This is not a joke…
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 reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court’s judges…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” by E. E. Cummings
“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 on) likens one fine woman to flowers (and to a…
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Science Saturday
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 of this week’s lunar eclipse. A third of people say…
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Saturday Morning Links
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 other things. A British student is fighting extradition to the…
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“Take Me Home”
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 authors Meg Day, Alexandra Teague, Jesse Ball. And the comedy…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
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 includes video of the library of the future!!! Letters of…
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For Those Without Travel Plans
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 other great authors. The perils of Disney World, the deep…