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Hunter S. Thompson’s Playboy Channel
In celebration of The Rum Diary hitting theaters at the end of this month, Playboy has created a new channel devoted to Hunter S. Thompson. “The Rum Diary Gonzo Channel” features a number of the author’s “most memorable stories” from…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Naomi Wolf tells her story of her arrest at Occupy Wall Street. If you work for NPR, don’t speak publicly about your politics, or you’ll lose your job. So much for the notion that NPR is some bastion of liberal…
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Longreads ♥
Longreads.com, which links to “the best long-form stories on the web,” has picked Rebecca K. O’Connor’s beautiful essay “What We Lost When We Lost Barbara Jean” as one of their selections today. Thanks Longreads.com, we love you back!
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are some very sad toys. This old map of Australia is pretty dang great. Understanding the mysteries of vampire stars. Art of the British General Post Office. And now your Soviet design for the week.
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Remember that NYPD deputy commander who pepper-sprayed protesters for apparently no reason at all? He’s facing disciplinary charges which could result in him losing 10 whole vacation days. The Guardian had a debate/conversation between protesters from Occupy Wall Street, London…
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What We Lost When We Lost Barbara Jean
This is the truth. Around noon I gulped a shot of tequila and then placed a chair in my closet, sat down, shut the door and put my .22 rifle in my mouth. It didn’t fit well. The scope got…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Google releases Ice Cream Sandwich, their new Android OS. One good robot can build another. People with lots of Facebook friends have denser grey matter in three areas of the brain. Apparently a dash of table salt can improve your hard…
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Julian Barnes Wins Man Booker Prize
Julian Barnes received the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending, “a slim and meditative story of mortality, frustration and regret.” Barnes had been nominated for the Booker three times before, and was “widely viewed as overdue” for…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The future of camouflage lies in Octopuses. This kind of thing is my favorite kind of thing: Captain Scott’s lost photographs. Maybe we are all living inside a future civilization’s computer simulation. Again, maybe a lot of things. I’m sure…
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Images of Occupy Wall Street Worldwide
The Atlantic has collected photographs of Occupy Wall Street protests across the world. The 50 photos—taken over the last several days—depict the growing nature of the movement.
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Arundhati Roy’s Political Writing
What has Arundhati Roy been up to since her 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things? This piece answers that, exploring Roy’s current writings on India’s Maoist rebels. “When her essay about the trip, Walking with the Comrades,…
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Letter Play
“The challenge is simple: Create an image from a word, using only the letters contained in the word itself—and using only the shapes of the letters, without adding extra parts.” Facebook creative director Ji Lee has released a new collection,…