Morning Coffee
So precious it hurts: microscopic origami. A concise listing of man’s landings on celestial bodies (via Boingboing.) Oh hey recycled boat, what’s up with you? GerryCanavan Points us to the…
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Why Do We Still Have DADT?
“The people in uniform I talk to, they just want to serve without fear. For years now, gays and lesbians who are serving their country heroically in two wars—and even…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Here’s a light-hearted start to the night–a cat decides a poetry video has to be stopped. A musing on poems with dates in the titles. Joshua Corey also responds to…
The New Math Doesn’t Really Work
What does one do with an essay like the one David Alpaugh penned for the Chronicle of Higher Education on the current state of poetry publication? As an editor who…
Science Saturday
Wired Science interviews Sean Carroll about the nature of time. Crocodiles may have been feasting for hominids for nearly 2 million years. Sushi in space. Probably not the freshest. See…
Pets are Cargo, not Passengers
I’ll probably piss some people off with this post, but I feel I have to say something. A friend of mine found herself on a flight to Houston yesterday with…
Saturday Morning Links
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…
Morning Coffee
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…
Camo Cupcakes
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…
FUNNY WOMEN #17: Coming Out Letter, October 2007
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…