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Netiquette from the early days
Been baffled recently by someone’s online behavior? At Full-Stop, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim offers advice drawn from the book published by those who pioneered the internet in 1995. A tip from the document: “…people with whom you communicate are located across the globe……
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Hate any and all liquid? This new superhydrophobic spray will make you completely moisture-free. Don’t give an elephant LSD. Meet albatross, your new meteorologist. More reminiscing photographs. This time the Lower…
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“The Pleasure and the Purpose of Writing”
All class is a privilege, even the lowliest have a vernacular that is all their own that they use to keep people in and keep people out. I like to use a lot of vernaculars next to each other in…
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Thanks, Flavorwire
Flavorwire highlighted Timothy Leo Taranto’s “Literary Puns” this week. Go here if you missed the unusual collection of writers-turned-caricatures. Thanks, Flavorwire, we love you back!
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A Library Without Books
This should be interesting: a judge in San Antonio, Texas, is opening a library without books. Or rather, there will be books, but only digital ones, which patrons can read on e-readers in the library or at home. Since “[t]he…
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Seven Short Stories About Drones
“Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Pity. A signature strike leveled the florist’s.” This and six other “short stories” (i.e., tweets) about drones by Teju Cole are gathered in a Storify for your reading ease.
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Beautiful Destruction, a story of graffiti in NYC
“Layering and flow and the strategic, intentional use of rupture are tenets of hip hop’s aesthetic DNA, and I definitely wanted to reflect that in the book.” The Millions interviews Adam Mansbach about his new novel, Rage is Back, which centers on graffiti in…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then… Meet the oldest pebble in the world. Looks like we’re not getting a Death Star after all. A gloomy series of superimposed images from the past and present of this Detroit…
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Adobe Bookshop Farewell Party
As Rumpus contributor Peter Orner recently said, “Don’t you all see what we are losing? If this city still has a soul, it’s at Adobe.” San Francisco’s Adobe Bookshop is going out of business, but not without a final hurrah.…
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Fact and Fiction in The Bell Jar
How much of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is autobiographical, and how much is fictional? Is her unflinching exploration of suicidal depression more meaningful if it’s a record of real life or if it’s invented? The Guardian tackles these questions (and posts a…
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In Space, No One Can Hear You Cry
Actually, according to this Atlantic blog post, in space, you can’t really cry at all. Astronauts can, certainly, tear up—they’re human, after all. But in zero gravity, the tears themselves can’t flow downward in the way they do on Earth. The…
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Notable San Francisco 1/14-1/19
This week in San Francisco! Monday 1/14: The Shout, Oakland’s monthly live storytelling event, is back for 2013. This month features five locals telling ten minute true life stories, with time for audience members to join in. $5-$20 suggested donation.…