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Swedish Pirates on the Rise
Most internet users have probably had some contact with The Pirate Bay, even if it’s indirect. It’s the Napster of bittorrent streaming, by which I mean it’s the loudest, most out-front face of p2p filesharing. Their recent trial (which just…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’m coming up on the end of a semester, so forgive me if this morning’s links seem a little obsessive about alcohol. For starters, what does the US have in common with Fiji, Palau and Micronesia? We’re the only non-Muslim…
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U.S. Department of the Arts?
Famed producer Quincy Jones has asked President Obama to establish a cabinet-level position for culture and the arts. An online petition already has almost 300,000 signatures. Add your name to the list!
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A Second Class Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
Hermione Lee’s marvelous biography of Virginia Woolf tells us that Woolf applied the same clear-eyed and unstinting analysis to her father, Leslie Stephen, that she did to most of her subjects, subjects that tended to be Victorian, domestic, and preoccupied…
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Luke’s Caveman Link List
There are many theories about how man is separate from the animals. The most recent one is that fire was the difference—not in a Ringo Starr fights the other tribe way, but in a new way: cooked food. Cooking let…
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Morning Coffee
2010 is just around the corner, where are my Flying Cars? The New York Times on why they will never happen and why they are right around the corner. Coney Island 1952. (via Metafilter) also the 1939 New York World’s…
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BAD MOMMY: The Truth About Motherhood! blah, blah, blah
In case you missed it, the other day Oprah did a show about moms “breaking the silence” about motherhood. Moms talked about their secret lives and feelings. They talked about embarrassing incidents mainly involving their children’s bodily fluids. I don’t know.…
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Morning Coffee
Need a little twee to start your day off right? Kacie Kinzer is sending a tiny cardboard robot across New York. They need your help. Green Apple on cool books that will never sell. (via The Millions) 15 year of…
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Morning Coffee
We here at the Rumpus do not speak nor read Russian. We are however, totally terrified and fascinated by this dying merman statue. Republican are a bunch of teabaggers and the National Organization for Marriage starts the M4M initiative (aka…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Happy Saturday, everyone. Here’s your poetry fix for the night. The Times Online discovers a link between poetry and Facebook. Guess who else is on Facebook. Part 2 of 4 on the modes of poetry. The nature of poetry readings…
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Little Brother is Watching Too
When Oscar Grant was shot by BART police in an Oakland station on New Year’s Day, locals found it quite suspicious that the official surveillance cameras weren’t working, so that no video would be available. Had it not been for…