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Saturday Morning Links
I’ve begun the task of getting actual winter clothes for the first time in my life. It’s funny to watch, I imagine. I walk into a store and don’t even recognize what some of these things are. Pity me. The…
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Litquake A Week Away
San Francisco’s Litquake 2011 runs Oct. 7-15. The nine-day annual literary festival will feature 850 Authors and 150 Events. This year’s Litquake will include conversations with Young Ireland; Nordic Noir; Mexican Feminism; Art of Writing panels; Iranian Women; Religious Renegades;…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This has been a morbid week: the last minutes of famous people’s lives. On Fridays, sometimes you just want to watch Indonesian wildlife. The temple of muses (classy guys, way classy). Here is an atlas of Saturn’s moon. HOLY SHIT…
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Piranhas Are Not That Into Us
Piranhas have gotten a bad reputation, and the media was all over the little stunt they just pulled. But that was more a display of affection than “attack,” according to this article, which provides some much-needed perspective on the risk…
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Coelho On Internet Sharing
“Mr. Coelho continues to give his work away free by linking to Web sites that have posted his books, asking only that if readers like the book, they buy a copy, “so we can tell to the industry that sharing…
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Independent Bookstore Campaign
The “40K in 40 days” campaign is raising money to open La Casa Azul Bookstore in East Harlem. Contribute before October 24th, and every dollar invested will be matched by a donor. “La Casa Azul Bookstore will sell new &…
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“Men of the Stacks”
Male librarians are seeking to “overthrow the cliché of the bespectacled, permanently shushing female” librarian by publishing a Calendar Girls-style calendar titled “Men of the Stacks.” Featuring twelves dudes, some partial nudity and intriguing books placements, this will surely be…
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Like It or Not
How does a non-native English speaker figure out the proper usage and placement of “like”? Is the “like tic” nothing more than a meaningless flaw? “Had the non-native inquirer delved further, he would have found “like” analyzed as communicating something…
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Internet: Not Randomized?
Wikileaks released this TED Talks video yesterday, titled “Facebook and Google / Secret Revealed.” The video explains how our internet searches may be sorted by an algorithm based on our assumed preferences.
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King Revokes Lashings
“Although there has been no official confirmation of the ruling, Princess Amira al-Taweel, wife of the Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, tweeted: ‘Thank God, the lashing of [Shaima] is cancelled. Thanks to our beloved king. I am sure all Saudi…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the week is an awesome photo-collection of old tvs. Tiny tiny England, 1930s style! Why are men terrible? Maybe evolution? Behold the Pacman Nebula! Also, here’s your weeks worth of animals-over-taking-ruin porn.