Morning everyone! Let’s see what the internet fairy left under my laptop today. Dan Ariely finds a new placebo. The sharks in Dubai are planning their escape…and revenge. Adrian Johns…
The Japanese are better at solar power than the rest of us. Tokujin Yoshioka’s rainbow church. Inhabitat brings you the book cell (thank you for this). Why yes, I would…
Dear Marketing Assholes, We here at The Rumpus are pretty damn sick of things like the Dodge Super Bowl commercial (cleverly spoofed here), or any “modern men are emasculated” ad…
Dear Professor Julie Abraham, It’s midnight, and I have to tell you about The Death of the Heart, and how Elizabeth Bowen is clever, and tragic, all at the same…
Gigantic Issue 2: Gigantic America is hitting stands this week across the country, and the pond. Issue 2 features dialogues with Lydia Millet, Adrian Tomine and Sam Lipsyte, fiction from…
The tragedy of umbrella genocide. If you should find yourself in Ahrensburg, Germany, perhaps you’d like to check out the Flour Art Museum. Also, in the above situation, you’d probably…
Over on TechCrunch, one of the developers who helped build the Flash platform was asked to speculate about the technical future of web content — essentially, whether he thinks the…
Sherman Alexie has written you a poem about My Sharona. (via GerryCanavan.) WFMU’s best show takes you through the darker side of power pop (mp3). The always reliable New Scientist…
Time photo-essay on zebra-relocation. They have to be relocated somehow you know? Liechetenstein! (I don’t know why I linked to this either) We here at M.C. headquarters are big fans…