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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
First thing: Chinese poet Lu Xiaobo has been sentenced to eleven years in prison. There isn’t much people can do, but you can register your opinion on this via the PEN American Center website. Mark Scroggins has inspired me to…
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Blasphemy in Ireland
The New Year brought more than hangovers and a debate over what we should call it. In Ireland, the new year brought into effect a new law banning blasphemy, which includes a fine as high as 25,000 Euros. Irish atheists…
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Science Saturday
Tasmanian Devils may wind up extinct, and not due to humans driving them out of their habitat. The culprit is a contagious cancer. The British NHS claims sex is good for you. Yet another argument for universal health care? The…
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Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to the first Saturday of 2010. I hope everyone has recovered from their celebrations. And what better way to ring in the New Year than with completely NSFW pics of people in Star Trek body paint–and nothing else. While…
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Morning Coffee
Don’t tell anyone, but today is the last day of the year. Other rad things you can make out of books. Can farming save Detroit? Sema Bekirovic takes some pretty impressive pictures. Romeo and Juliet as you misremember it. Why…
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FUNNY WOMEN #11: The Emily Post Guide to Beheadings
It happens in all our lives. We put down our golf clubs to peruse the mail that the butler has brought on a silver tray, when we discover an invitation to a beheading. Naturally, our minds turn to deeper thoughts:…
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Funny Women Around the Web, 12/30/09
Ann Friedman is one of the editors of my favorite feminist blog, feministing, where she writes the Weekly Feminist Reader (“I know what I’m looking forward to doing this holiday season? Putting on my finest party dress, lying down on the…
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Estonian Animation
Yesterday Will Schofield, editor of the oh-so-awesome A Journey Round My Skull, posted some amazing pictures from Estonian children’s books. Well Will has found an animated version of one of the books, and it is just as amazing… and by…
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Gainsbourg in Gowanus via Beck
In celebration of the January release of IRM, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s latest album, which was produced by Beck, Gainsbourg will be performing two shows at The Bell House in Brooklyn (1/19, 1/20), tickets for which go on sale today at noon.…
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Morning Coffee
It is getting increasingly hard to fill this section with anything but year-end retrospectives, but I like this graph quite a bit. Hubble’s best images of 2009 (see above). The Russians are trying to lead the way on leaching. (via…
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Morning Coffee
Warhol’s sport star polaroids. Who doesn’t love a sweaty bat? Contemporary artists design New York taxi signs. Yep. Seed Magazine, going through their best articles of the year, brings you this look at scientists competing to find new worlds. I…