Who would win…?
When it comes to groups willing to argue passionately over possible outcomes to contests that will never take place, Sci-Fi-ers and sports nuts are far and away the most obnoxious.…
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Saturday Morning Links
It’s Saturday morning. Get the sleep out your eyes and start clicking. Farhad Manjoo has some solid ideas on how to beat the Kindle. Now, if only Amazon’s competitors will…
Morning Coffee
The 10 geekiest tattoos. “An essay on the horrors of the Port Authority Bus Terminal, in the form of a Choose Your Own Adventure® story” from Rudolph Delson. It is…
Morning Coffee
Proof that everything that could possibly exist does somewhere: Life takes you inside a fish hospital. Library themed ice cream? It turns out that coin flips aren’t fair at all.…
Would Tolstoy Get Tenure?
“Name of applicant: Rimbaud, Arthur “The candidate is not suited to a university environment except as an expellable member of a fraternity – if one would take him. The committee…
Morning Coffee
The LA Times looks back on “Day of the Locust.” For some reason, placebos seem to be getting more effective. Take THAT science and medical advances! Atlas Obscura is a…
The Best Fake Holocaust Memoir Ever
Born (and undoubtedly circumsized) in 2001, Booklyn-based Heeb Magazine has been irreverently covering Jewish culture for nearly a decade. Recently they one-upped themselves in the hilariously inappropriate category with the…
You Don’t Know Me: Bomb, Opium, Gigantic New York Summer Soiree
Get ready to get your rocks off. Literary art mags Bomb, Opium and Gigantic are joining forces to host a night of short artistic/musical/literary programs this Wednesday, August 26th at…
Morning Coffee
Adaptive re-use of crashed starships. If presenting Wuthering Heights like a new Stephenie Meyer gets people reading, does it matter? Scientists draw squid using its 150 million-year-old fossilised ink. A…
Honest People Just Can’t Help It
Good news! Honesty, it turns out, may not be something that we can control. In a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists Joshua Greene…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Charles Bernstein tells us that the University of Alabama Press is having a recession sale on many of the titles in their Modern and Contemporary Poetics series. (Via Culture Industry)…