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This month’s Rumpus, Wake Up, It’s Late, is tonight(!!!) at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco. Do you have your tickets yet? The event will feature authors Andrew Winer, M.G. Martin, Pam Houston, Chris Colin, and Kristen Tracy! With Comedy…

Andrew Sullivan pointed me in the direction of these portraits of philosophers by Steve Pyke. Funny, with few exceptions (like Zizek, and if you feel like being exasperated, check out the quote under his photo), I had absolutely no idea…

“By our count, nine out of nine of the latest Observer departures were women or gay men. All left in the last three months.” — The Awl wonders what’s going on with the staff at the New York Observer.

One of the most disturbing parts of the bonus section of the Supersize Me DVD is the experiment Morgan Spurlock conducts on McDonald’s sandwiches and sandwiches from other restaurants. He places them in glass jars and films them over the…

Here’s a brief review of The Anthology of Rap in New York Magazine, in which the reviewer claims Big Daddy Kane as the greatest rap lyricist of all time. I like that he differentiates between lyricists and performers, because great…

Can science tell us about morality? Listen to Science Friday and find out. Great images of invasive species at the Wired Science blog. Lots of other great stuff too, including space photos and LHC talk. Have math dyslexia? Having a…

I turn 42 tomorrow, and so am having a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy themed party to celebrate. Do you know where your towel is? I really can’t think of any way to defend this decision by the University of…

I’m going to be occupied for a couple days with recording and oral surgery, but here are some pretty things. “Invisible galaxies” is a really poetic phrase. Our good friend at A Journey Around My Skull provides with the most…

As it turns out, the most universal thing of all is jet lag. Architizer on the modern garden. Today in Hungarian urban renewal. Here is a list of Kim Jong-Il’s tiles.