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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 a million pairs in India this year. The glasses are…
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“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, in Baltimore, Maryland. What makes the story more than just…
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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 we rethink gravity a little. (hella entropy dudes!)
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Tonight! ONE YEAR LATER in New York
The Rumpus and HTMLGIANT present ONE YEAR LATER, a celebration of the first anniversary of The Rumpus, tonight, January 21, 2010. The night will feature readings by Rivka Galchen, Tao Lin, Deb Olin Unferth, Justin Taylor and Stephen Elliott, musical…
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The Latest on Haiti
Some people in Haiti are riding out the earthquake in decent shape. Any guesses who? As we mentioned yesterday,
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Morning Coffee
Passport photos of famous artists. (via MeFi.) Dinosaur comics reminds us that there are still reasons to be excited. Here is that info on exciting new Chinese infrastructure architecture you were asking about. Crazy-gorgeous-washed-out-Spanish-photography of the day. The actual use…
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The February Monthly Rumpus
The Rumpus proudly presents: The February Monthly Rumpus February 8th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! Featuring authors Tony Dushane, Robin Ekiss, Ethan Watters, Kevin Sampsell, and Daniel Handler! With the hilarious DJ…
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Morning Coffee
Monroe County Indiana Coroner’s reports, 1896-1935. It’s raining as I type this, so this seems like a good start. (via MeFi.) Tattoo locations (and what they say about you). Hey, climate change isn’t all that bad; sometimes it creates rad…
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Researchers Show How to Hijack Clicks on Facebook
CNET has a short piece up about a number of security vulnerabilities on Facebook that have recently been demonstrated by researchers — and they’re more serious than the notion that some random employee there might check out your profile. In…
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The Latest from Haiti
Haiti tries to go from rescue to recovery to relief. And if you’re looking for people to follow via Twitter, Jay Newton-Small, the writer of the above piece is a great place to start. Plus, you get little snippets of…
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Morning Coffee
Today’s theme is things that are good. These appeal to me on at least three levels: 1980’s subway photography. The top fonts of 2009. “The primary goal is to change the attitude towards living on a houseboat.” Seed Magazine on…
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(Mistakenly) Miss the January Monthly Rumpus?
Read about it and see video here, thanks to Evan Karp of The SF Examiner. He condenses the whole night: “I think everyone had fun. I know I did. The main thing is to raise awareness of the site, I think,…