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What’s Happening in Egypt?
Let me say at the outset here that I don’t really know. This is a developing story and there are some conflicting reports coming out of an area that isn’t exactly known for its love of a free and independent…
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Tried as an Adult?
“Will an 11-year-old get life in prison for murder?” The stunning case of Jordan Brown. (via MeFi)
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important: The fake astronauts have almost reached fake Mars. A look at artist-scientist Carsten Holler, who, you know, we like. Alphabets Publicitaires. Tuesday seems like a good day to discuss mass extinction. Hanoaka Seishu’s Surgical Casebook (yes).
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Win the Internet
The good folks at Thought Catalog–including writers like Blake Butler, Tao Lin, and Jimmy Chen among others–break down the different types of people you can find on the internet. Do you think you’ve “won the internet”? Find out.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #71
THE INTERNET ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Internet.
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Extra Space
“Typing two spaces after a period is totally, completely, utterly, and inarguably wrong.” Farhad Manjoo believes you should “never, ever” use a double space after a period. (via TheMillions)
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DAn Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Thomas Edison had some thoughts on 2011 too. Victorian infographics! Headline of the day: Undercover policeman married activist he was sent to spy on. Mitch Dobrowner takes pictures of storms. They are good. Cool. This week in apocalyptic signs: we…
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Saddest Books in the World
GalleyCat is asking readers to name the saddest books in the world. The saddest books I’ve read are so far are Bridge to Terabithia, Fall on Your Knees, The Lovely Bones, and A Thousand Splendid Suns. I’ve read more, but…
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Junot Diaz on the Pulitzer
“If Pulitzer prize-winner and Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz is to be believed, winning the award in 2008 for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, meant little more than a short-lived applause. ‘In America, people don’t like to read. But…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
You don’t have to wait until AWP to get a copy of my book. The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chat with Kirsten Kaschock will be on Monday January 31 at 9:00 p.m. EST, 6:00 p.m. PST. Save the date. Jessie…
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Against Mixology
I’m with Sarah Deming on this–I hate mixologists. Fortunately, they probably hate me too, assuming they acknowledge my existence at all, because I’m one of those muddle-palated creatures who prefers the taste of liquor to just about anything it can…
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Science Saturday
Want a mammoth ride? Give it four years, apparently. Want to really learn a subject? Write about it. (Now, is there any way we writing teachers can use this information to get ourselves a raise?) Naomi Klein on our addiction…