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Notable New York, This Week 6/20-6/26
This week in New York Desperately Seeking Susan at the River to River Festival; Kate Christensen and Gerald Howard at The Center for Fiction; Pete Hamill reads at Bryant Park; The Soundtrack Series; The L Life: Extraordinary Lesbians Making a…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If I am reading this right, all IT people are autistic. I would like to live my life inside a converted French Art Deco swimming pool. Behold the Russian Wizard of Oz. (via BibliOdyssey.) Holy cow, memory implants! Most importantly:…
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Dad & Daughter: Nine Years of Bedtime Stories
Happy Father’s Day! Here’s a feel-good daddy story from NPR: When Alice Ozma was a fourth-grader, she and her dad, Jim Brozina, made a pact to read together every night for 100 days. At the end of the 100 days,…
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Tortuous Dictionary Definitions
“The notorious definition for door runs to 72 words, written as if the dictionary’s audience were Martians who had never encountered human-made doors. The single statement for hotel is even more bizarre: weighing in at 91 words, it manages to…
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Recycling-Plus!
Scientists in Japan have discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces. No, I’m not shitting you. “Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the…
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This is not a joke…
Though in a saner world, the people who made this decision would be considered one. “A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court’s judges…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” by E. E. Cummings
“Somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” is not only the Last Poem I Loved, it also is actually the first. The way its writer (of whom I shall elaborate later on) likens one fine woman to flowers (and to a…
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Science Saturday
We’re not quite halfway through the year and this has already been one of the most extreme weather years on record. And hurricane season just started. Nice collection of images of this week’s lunar eclipse. A third of people say…
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Saturday Morning Links
Very often I will begin this link roundup with a joke about being hung over. None today, because I actually am hung over. Amazon’s Kindle store is selling spam, among other things. A British student is fighting extradition to the…
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Revenge of the Prey: How a Deer Killed My Dad
I always hated Father’s Day. Did I need to be reminded that I couldn’t remember my father?
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“The White House Wants to Get Him”
I’m still stunned from reading this story on the front page of yesterday ’s New York Times. Officials in George W. Bush’s White House, James Risen reports, directed the Central Intelligence Agency to dig up damaging personal information on Juan…