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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I just spent 16 hours on a train going from San Francisco to LA. I hate everyone in the world right now except … no, no exceptions. Everyone. Sorry. As a result, though, everything I link to today will be awesome.…
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Occupy Des Moines
Today, there were protests going on in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Barcelona, San Francisco–most major cities around the globe–all inspired by Occupation of Wall Street that began 4 weeks ago. Include on this long list the city of Des…
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Saturday Morning Links
Saturdays may belong to me, but today I belong to Occupy Des Moines. We’re marching to the Wells Fargo building this morning, located at 666 Walnut St. Not making that up. Feel free to post your own occupation stories in…
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Iran Assassination Plot Roundup
The most recent “twist” and background information regarding the subject. Iran denies their involvement. Changes have already occurred on Capitol Hill since the announcement on Tuesday. The plot has been taken to the U.N. and the U.S. further seeks international…
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Lit Crawl Event
The Rumpus Presents! This October’s Rumpus event will collide with LitCrawl, Litquake’s final evening. Join in the Crawl on Saturday, October 15th and come find us at 8:30pm at the Make-Out Room (3225 22nd Street). Featuring authors Stephen Elliot, Kathleen…
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An #OWS Roundup
Yesterday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg informed the protesters in Zuccotti Park that they would be evicted this morning at 7 AM so the park could be cleaned. The protesters responded by sending out a call for cleaning supplies…
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R.I.P. Dennis Ritchie, Computing Founding Father
Dennis Ritchie created the C programming language (“the basis of nearly every programming and scripting tool”) and co-developed the Unix operating system. His death on October 8th fell in the shadow of that of Steve Jobs, but his work is…
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“Hacktivism and Social Change”
In this Nation Conversations audio interview, reporter Laurie Penny takes a closer look at how digital resistance groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec have enabled protests from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. She breaks down the relationship between…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As it turns out, the T-rex was more bad ass than we’d ever imagined. Good news everyone, now you can chart the Large Hadron Collider at CERN’s progress from the safety of your smart phone. A little Friday Swiss midcentury…
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On Publishing and Letting Go
“It’s even possible that there’s something retrospective in the nature of writing itself. Probably every writer’s first piece of writing, if it were possible to excavate such a thing, would be found to look backward. Writing tries to fix the…
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Occupy Wall Street Roundup
It looks like the protesters will not be allowed to bring their gear and tents back to Zuccotti Park after the planned clean-up tomorrow. The Pew Research Center finds that news about the expanding protests made up just 7% of…