Paris Review Essay by Édouard Levé
(#)This is chompy.net, a part of Spaceship No Future.
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When I Look at a Strawberry, I Think of a Tongue
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Pakistan’s Dandy UN Ambassador
Pakistan’s UN Ambassador, Abdullah Hussein Haroon, seems like he just stepped out of a Rex Stout novel.
Still not convinced? Watch this:
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The Devil’s Trumpet
The Salem witch trials and the imperfect science of history.
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NYPL Labs : Stereogranimator
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NYRB: Joan Didion: The Teachings of Speaker Gingrich
Newt Gingrich: management huckster, idiot futurist, moron historian, ham-fisted writer. (#) -
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NYT: Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemala Ex-Dictator, to Appear in Court
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Three Recipes by Edward Lear, Nonsensist
Amblongus Pie, Crumbobblious Cutlets and Gosky Patties.
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NYRB: Writing Adrift in the World
On localism in literature: “This is not an argument for staying at home, but for having a home from which to set out.” (#) (via) -
Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP
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3quarksdaily: Will the Maine Coon become an American Icon?
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Driving Through Time
The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
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Crowd-Sourcing American History - Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Are Women People?, by Alice Duer Miller
Sarcastic doggerel for women’s suffrage. (#) (via) -
NYT: Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class
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Kieran Hiely: Apple for the Teacher
“Technology is Always About to Transform Education” (#) -
Khoi Vinh: Get Thee to a Punnery
SEO is killing the interesting headline. (#) -
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Real Racists Do Real Things
“When a professor of history calls Barack Obama a ‘Food Stamp President,’ it isn’t a mistake to be remedied through clarification; it is a statement of aggresion. And when a crowd of his admirers cheer him on, they are neither deluded, nor in need of forgiveness, nor absolution, nor acting against their interest. Racism is their interest.” (#) -
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Epic map of North American English dialects
Check out El Paso, Corpus Christi, and Galveston. (#) (via) -
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Jenny Diski on seafaring Jews
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JSTOR Tests Free, Read-Only Access to Some Articles
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NYT: Aid Coast to Coast for Injured Brooklyn D.J.
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Going Across the Sea
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To thine own self be true
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Cosa de Gringos
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Botswana
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DNShares: The internet was built to route around failures
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I bet everyone who stopping working on RSS readers bc of Google Reader are kicking themselves. Minus the ones who quit Google.
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TheMarkTwain: Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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danbenjamin: Nothing teaches you more about being a parent than having a kid.
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How do I set my Gmail theme to ‘Dinosaur’?
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ftrain: Winer criticizing Kottke for mocking Stallman’s parrot is the Rollins/Shipley Crisis of our generation.
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Kurt_Vonnegut: So it goes.
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Silly. It’s always beer week in Austin. http://t.co/QJVCBtNF