Launch Party for Gigantic Issue 2: Gigantic America
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…
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Google Facts
Profit: 2000= -14,690,000 2009=6,520,450,000 Pingdom has created a massive infographic filled with very interesting facts and figures about Google.
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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…
Flash vs. HTML5
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…
“Poem For Dad,” a Rumpus Original Poem by D. W. Lichtenberg
Poem For Dad My brother called me up on the phone and said Hey Dan dad called me up again. He’s worried about you again, man. Isn’t it about time…
Morning Coffee
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…
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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…
Notable New York, This Week 2/22 – 2/28
This week in New York 2010: Whitney Biennial opens, Gigantic holds a launch party for Issue 2: Gigantic America, Anderbo Reading at KGB, Mary Karr talks with Philip Gourevitch, MOMA…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/22-2/28
This week: See Rumpus favorites Stephen Elliott and W. Kamau Bell at their respective performances on Sex and Black History Month, raise money for Bryant Elementary School at Wet Wednesday…
Morning Coffee
Scientifically speaking, we are all really boring. I don’t really understand how this works at all, but the code organ is a mighty fine way to kill some time. Diary…
Take a Hike, or “Thoreau Was a Neuroscientist”
Stop reading this and go outside and take a walk somewhere nature-like. Right now. Okay, did you go? Good. Now you might actually pay attention to me.