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Kodak’s first digital camera. (via @caitlinroeper) Rockaway to Rockaway: This dude Matt just finished walking across the country. “How great would you feel if a real person called you every…
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Chats With Random Men #3: Abraham
This week Alina randomly chats with Abraham, a modern day renaissance man…
Morning Coffee
Seed has an incredibly great slide show on animal dioramas at the American Natural History Museum. Antarctica trips for the very rich (the joke behind these is that you probably…
Morning Coffee
On the origins of our alphabet. Everyone loves a good cubist birdhouse now and then. The Rumpus is god damn intellectual yo; Bio-semiotics! Misleading headline of the day: Beer microbes…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/23-8/29
This week in San Francisco: an Adult Writers’ Seminar at 826 Valencia, a record release at Jellyfish Gallery, sweet animation at A.T.A., and, as always, art and poetry in The…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #41
I know alligators don’t understand English, you asshole. It’s all about the tone of voice you use. Just you watch, Doug. Twenty minutes of sweet-talking and this beast will be…
Morning Coffee
Let’s all take this Monday morning to celebrate rad coins from around the world. Not your thing? How about these postage stamps of PROGRESS. Still nothing? Maybe you’re the kind…
How to Seduce Men
Turns out The Great Gatsby is good for more than passing eighth grade English – try seduction. May not get you a marriage proposal, but might be good for a…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The Nepotist, if you’re unaware, is an online journal run by a person who publishes his/her friends, and does so anonymously. What’s the over/under, do you think, on someone either…
A Poetry Bestseller?
On the first day of every semester in my poetry classes, I ask my students if they can name a single living poet. About one in three classes comes up…
Science Saturday
The headline says it all: “Galactic Supervolcano Erupts From Black Hole“. That oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico? Still there, and no idea how long it’ll stay. The moon…
Saturday Morning Links
Is it Saturday already? My last week of vacation/first week of work went by a little quickly. How did medieval folks protect their DVDs? I haven’t written anything on the…