I live down the street from a real life celebrity: not one of those fake celebrities who’s won a Nobel Prize or appeared in the local newspaper because she raised…
ScholarMatch is an important new project from the folks at 826 National that matches potential donors with gifted young scholars who need help paying for college. It is a fantastic…
This week in New York Ben Marcus and Deb Olin Unferth read, John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) performs with PiL, MobyLives presents book trailer awards, One…
Welcome to the known world, sweet-ass spike-nosed frog. (updated with actual link, not coworkers address.) This is an article about bat fellatio. Outdated cities of the future. Oh hey telephone…
This week, wood block prints, films about farms, have a nerd-gasm at Cory Doctorow’s EFF reading at 111 Minna, see suspense-master Palahniuk at the Swedish American Music Hall, and get…
“There are as many definitions of philosophy as there are philosophers – perhaps there are even more. After three millennia of philosophical activity and disagreement, it is unlikely that we’ll…
Embroidering Wonder Bread. Department of total bummer: pictures of the stomach contents of deceased albatross. Turning Guggenheim tickets into rad art in and of themselves. Have you seen this giant…
Austin Kleon’s Newspaper Blackout site (along the same lines as his book) is worth checking out. He’s also a more than fair Twitterer. Via Harriet, Andrea Lingenfelter talks about “teaching…
Take a look at the next-generation supercars competing for the $10 million Progressive Automotive X Prize. Every thing that has ever lived on this planet probably evolved from a single-celled…