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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Poetry is good for your face, but you need to make sure you rub it all the way in. Harriet, the Poetry Foundation’s blog, is having some problems with commenters. I wonder why we don’t? Steven Fama has a few…
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You’ve Got To Have Friends
Forget the herbal supplements, the diets, the hyperbaric oxygen chambers–a big circle of friends has a huge effect on your long-term health.
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As Long As There Isn’t a Movie Sequel
1991 was an eventful year–the Soviet Union collapsed, our Iraq adventure began, Scott Norwood’s kick went wide right, Magic Johnson tested positive for HIV, Jeffrey Dahmer and Mike Tyson were arrested on the same day (though for different crimes), and…
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Another Bust for the Bush War
According to the New York Times, Americans posing as contractors allegedly stole $40 million in Iraqi fuel and sold it on the black market. “The operation described in the indictment contained elements of an international crime thriller and a Cheech…
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Brian’s Saturday Morning Links
Looking for a way to set your company apart from the rest of the herd? Try business cards made of meat–beef jerky, to be specific. I don’t even want to know what that office supply closet smells like after a…
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The Rumpus Review of War Music
If you live in San Francisco you’ve probably seen the signs on storefronts and taxis—the posters eye-catching and cryptic: War Music, flanked by a wing and a gun.
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Take Your Daughter to Your Cubicle!
Today is Take Our Daughters to Work Day. Sons are also included. I didn’t want to pull my daughter out of school so she could watch me tinker on my computer while watching The View. My husband’s in court in Maui…
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Morning Coffee
The Ordos 100 is a project wherein 100 different architects from around the world will design a village in Inner Mongolia. The designs have been slowly coming out. Here is the most recent one. Everyman his own historian. 1931 annual…
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I Make-a-the-Music
The best game for Nintendo DS was not Nintendogs, as much as I liked that one. It was a little-known experimental music interface called Elektroplanton, with which you would use the stylus and microphone to create surprisingly sonorous and satisfying…
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Morning Coffee
This flickr photo pool of grain elevators is entirely hypnotic. Thank you Death Wish Three for bringing this to our attention. Should our online relationships effect our real life relationships? I can’t unfollow you. Google book search settlement gives Google…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
The poet Deborah Digges died April 10, and there’s been a number of remembrances posted online, along with stories and selections from from her work. Ron Silliman notes the passing of Franklin Rosemont, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Henri Meschonnic. Travis…