Notable New York, This Week 1/25 – 1/31
This week in New York Lydia Davis and Richard Howard read, John Wray, Heidi Julavits and Sarah Manguso discuss ebooks at Melville House, Of Montreal and Damon & Naomi perform,…
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Morning Coffee
So many things we meant to mean to say. NYC’s edible schoolyard. Wired on why mold is as efficient as Japanese urban planners. Instead of changing the electoral college or…
The Kids Are Gonna Be Alright, But No One Else Is
“Because you can no longer gather thirty people to make one funny thing anymore — they’re all busy making their own funny things, online and alone. The Internet changed music…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Partially due to anti-porn Internet filters, the Canadian magazine The Beaver is changing its name. (via Silliman) The end was near, and now it is near, and damn it, why…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
It’s Saturday night and it’s poetry time. Who else is excited? I always figured the Irish got excited about poetry. Roddy Doyle says otherwise. I’m late to the game in…
Science Saturday
Flashier birds produce stronger sperm. I wonder how that would play out in human males? Hi-Res flyover pictures will help in the Haiti recovery. Satellite photos have been good, but…
Confusing Metaphor with Reality
In her scathing piece for Slate about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Dahlia Lithwick compares the Supreme Court’s actions to those of the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio, saying that…
Saturday Morning Links
What happens when Vanity Fair wanders into Kentucky to tour a Creationist Museum? Go see the destruction for yourself. Don “Moose” Lewis wants everyone to know that he’s not a…
Eyeglasses For Everyone; No, Really: Everyone
The Washington Post reports that an English physician, Joshua Silver, has designed eyeglasses that absolutely anybody in the world, no matter how poor, can afford, and he has plans to distribute…
“Mr. Plimpton’s Revenge”
Author Dinty W. Moore has an interesting tale about chance run-ins with George Plimpton that starts when Moore was an undergrad at the University of Pittsburgh and ends, decades later,…
Morning Coffee
Boingboing wants to talk to you about sloths for a second. Gay for clouds! How I plan to impress my girlfriend’s parents. New York City shower portraits. Maybe it’s time…