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Dan Weiss’ Morning Coffee
Start your week off right with some toxic Hungarian sludge. Lapham’s Quarterly on floating cities, real and imagined. Concrete canvas is totally amazing. Vintage coffee tins! Hurray! Um, have you read about Googles robot car yet?
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Robot Reporters and Automated Anchors
Hey, here’s something terrifying: To fill the void of the massive layoffs that have hit journalism, it appears that news outlets may be looking more and more to computers and even artificial intelligence to fill the void. Among the things…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Jonathan Farmer has some ideas on ways people can support poetry in the digital age. I really support his fifth one, which suggests getting web designers and programmers involved in the world of online poetry, because formatting a poem with…
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Do You Have Answers For This Teacher?
I could have linked to this in Poetic Lives Online, but I feel inspired by the Chaka Khan playing in the background to open it up to the Saturday crown. (Don’t ask me what I mean by that.) So a…
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Science Saturday
Fascinating presentation by Hans Rosling about how the world is winning the war on child mortality. Is water more common on asteroids than originally thought? Remember that story about the bees disappearing? There’s an answer. Drinking at the pub can…
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More MFA Talk
To be perfectly honest, I’d probably have ignored this piece by Seth Abramson about the top 25 Underrated Creative Writing programs if my partner Amy and several Facebook friends hadn’t pointed it out to me for this entry: “Florida Atlantic…
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Welcome to Saturday
So we’re into the baseball post-season now, and most of the Rumpus folk live in a city with a team still involved. Last game I attended in San Francisco, Barry Bonds hit his 700th home run, so I guess I’ve…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am endlessly fascinated by these amazing pictures of Dubai. Almost certainly the most whimsical Japanese bank I’ve seen today. I don’t usually like links in other languages, but there are some pretty amazing old Brazilian buildings here. Look at…
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Sesame Street In Nigeria
“In a country with a population of over 150 million — where, according to the CIA World Factbook, nearly half are under the age of 14 — the show will address some of the biggest challenges faced by young people…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The theme of today is things that I like. A little design porn to get you though the mid week: vintage color wheels and type sets! While we are on the subject, I heart international design weeks! (now in Moscow.)…
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“Now for a cheer they are here, triumphant!”
“The board of elections in Washington D.C. has a new website designed to let soldiers and others vote from overseas. As a test, the board challenged outsiders to try to find faults with the system.” Can you guess what happened?…