Science Saturday
Blimps might be making a comeback. Meteor shower late Sunday night, well, late by east coast standards. Well, late by people-with-9-to-5-jobs standards. Even though it’s supposed to be the most…
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
Eros in Athens
This sounds like one hell of a show–the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens (not the one in Georgia) has put together a collection of erotic art dating from the…
Saturday Morning Links
Is it Saturday already? Time flies when grades are due. The Mexican answers some important questions about faith and cartoons. Yes yes yes. Take what Overthinking It says about filmmaking…
Live As if Everything Were a Miracle
“Someone said there are only two ways to live your life: one is as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is. I’ve always been convinced…
December 14th: The Monthly Rumpus in San Francisco
Please join us on December 14th at The Makeout Room (3225 22nd St.) for a night of literature, music, and comedy. Featuring Andrew Leland from The Believer Magazine, James Nestor,…
A Eulogy for Editor & Publisher
“It’s a sad day, but in a strange way the death of Editor & Publisher gives me hope for the future of journalism. Because they showed us a blueprint, that…
Funny Women Around the Web
To start a revolution, we need more than just a column. Occasionally we’d like to link to particularly hysterical funny women all over the Internet. Edith Zimmerman at The Awl…
Morning Coffee
Something happened and Morning Coffee missed the schedule. We’re not sure why. Ruben Brulat takes some pretty amazingly epic self-portaits. Dutch library design porn. Monkey syntax! Eight ways in-vitro meat…
What Buildings Would You Ban?
“Fear, on one side, of watching Europe turn into “Eurabia” —even if the demographics don’t justify such worries—and, on the other, of seeing centuries’ worth of social liberalization—including women’s suffrage…
Water Causes Cancer And Other Truths
Time Magazine has already called it “The Decade From Hell.” (Couldn’t have been worse than the 1940’s?! Could it? I mean the 40’s had Hitler AND Stalin.) And if you…
The December Monthly Rumpus
December 14 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd St., 7pm Get Advance Tickets! Click here! Please join us for a night of literature, music, and comedy featuring: Andrew Leland from…
Morning Coffee
Mystery lights in the Norwegian sky. I love the universe! (update: Bad Astronomy has gotten to the bottom of it!) Photographing Las Vegas’ neon boneyard. Gerry Canavan points us to…