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Morning Coffee
An Illustrated History of the War on Drugs. (via TPM) In case you’ve ever wonder what has more calories, polar bear or grizzly. Check out this sweet fence! We don’t usually do legos, but sometimes you need to fill in…
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New York Runs Deep
Today Alexis Madrigal linked to a National Geographic page that features a scale rendering of New York City from the surface down. It’s just a schematic cross-section, not an actual map of the city’s underground, because it’s actually not possible to create…
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Over at the Splinter Generation
“It starts to put the world in perspective. You start meeting real people. You meet moms, and you meet children, and you meet dads, and uncles, and grandpas, and you know, the people that I consider to be heroes. I…
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Morning Coffee
New Scientist on the further uses of sticky tape. Yiorgos Yiacos has designed a set of prints based on fables. They are pretty sweet, you know, if you’re into that kind of thing. The Magma Arts and Congress Center is…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
A confluence of politics and poetry: Senate Sotomayor votes explained in haiku. No great surprise, but poetry is disappearing from B&N bookshelves in Chico, CA. And pretty much every B&N, for that matter. Sometimes I feel like I should just…
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A Sober Novelist? Be Serious.
Tom Shone has been studying writers who have quit drinking. He’s doing it, of course, for a novel he’s writing. How meta. Still, he gives us some interesting anecdotes.
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Happy Birthday Herman
“And I only am escaped alone to tell thee” If he were alive, today, August 1st 2009, would be Herman Melville’s 190th birthday and on this occasion I’d like to take the opportunity to pay a small, humble tribute to…
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I Took My Wife’s Last Name
Not me, personally–that’s the title of this piece by Josiah Neufeld in the Globe and Mail. It’s an interesting piece, not so much because of what Neufeld did, but how his family reacted to it.
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Writing From Experience
Your experiences, and how you process them, are what make you unique as an individual. They are also the most valuable things we can offer readers. Last chance to sign up for Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott’s Writing From Experience class…
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Baseball and Steroids
I’m not the sports guy here at The Rumpus–that’s Brian Schwartz, who’s better at it than I could ever be. But I am a more than casual fan of baseball, and the story of steroid use is one that may…