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So then those things happened. Fare thee well, Shoot the Freak. Fishing for Compliments. Here is your day’s worth of vintage fairy tale illustration. Plants and fungi used to be total bros.

Comics editor Paul Madonna, Managing Editor Isaac Fitzgerald, and Editor Stephen Elliott sketching out possible design improvements for The Rumpus.

Save the Words is a new web-based campaign to save endangered words. According to their website, hundreds of long out-of-use words are deleted from the dictionary every year leaving us with only 7,000 accounting for almost all of our daily…

There’s a great conversation going on in the comments section of Seth Fischer’s essay, “Meta: A Rumpus Editor Ponders The Fate of The Rumpus.” Why not join the discussion?

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Here are some pictures of an igloo made out of fridges for protest or something or whatever. Io9 leaves us pondering what is radder: mountains in the rings of Saturn or prehistoric shrimp teeth? Fools be building tiny livers in…

HALLOWEEN, 2010 ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Halloween, 2010.

I’m eating candy for dinner, Doug, so I can go to the dentist. The more X-rays I get, the more radiation I’m exposed to. If science has taught us anything, it’s that exposure to radiation unleashes your superpowers. Yeah, I…

We try not to be political, but it would be pretty cool if you voted tomorrow. Who doesn’t love old pictures of the subway? (the answer is jerks.) Meanwhile, still in New York, USB drives as urban art. Are you…

Just to finish off Halloween right, I’ve got some links for you. Lots of old horror pulp covers! Weird Tales has one minute video stories. Pretty cool idea. (They have open submissions for this, too.) Did you know Arthur Conan…