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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What does it even mean to create artificial blood vessels on a 3D printer? The ancient Irish were totally terrified of zombies. “On the Writing of the Insane (with illustrations).” Also here are some cannibalism facts and maps, courtesy of…
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A Look at What Makes Google Translator Tick
“Google Translator deals with translation on the basis not that every sentence is different, but that anything submitted to it has probably been said before.” Google Translator defies traditional methods of automatic translation (via “syntax and vocabulary”), searching instead for…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/19-9/25
This week in San Francisco Monday 9/19: Bay Area based John Sakkis and Lynn Xu headline the 1st and 3rd Mondays Poets! series at Bird and Beckett tonight. Readings will be followed by an open mic. 7PM, FREE. A lecture…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #103
NETFLIX ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Netflix.
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Notable New York, This Week 9/19-9/25
This week in New York, Kick Assonance poetry reading at KGB Bar; Damion Searls talks Proust and Ruskin; Center for Book Arts opens fall exhibitions; Page Meets Stage with Suheir Hammad and Beau Sia; The Soundtrack Series; the Asian American…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The porn industry is ready for the apocalypse. While we’re on the subject (not really): the consequences of ruin porn. Yes, we heard about the loneliest seal too. Hey look, more UN postage stamps! OMG DINOSAUR FEATHERS!
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Growing Up in Greenland: The Rumpus Interview with Jeanne Tost
Aarhus, Denmark, is the second largest city in that nation after Copenhagen, and a center of the arts and education. I was recently there for a literary festival, and in the process I made the acquaintance of some students of…
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Tweetathon for the Short Story
The Brits, more specifically, a UK organization called the Society of Authors, will be highlighting the importance of the short story with a special Tweetathon. The tweetathon features a well-known author tweeting the first line of a story; the next…
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Best Romance Novel Typo Ever
One of my guilty pleasures is reading trashy romance novels. The majority of these novels stick to the same format, with sex scenes that range from tepid to the written version of simulated porn from Skinemax–nothing too raunchy or taboo.…
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Sorry to be a downer, but…
I want to be real clear about something at the beginning of this post. I’m opposed to the death penalty in any and all cases. Name history’s greatest criminals and I’m fine with allowing them to live the rest of…