Saturday, November 7, 2009
Currently: Padgett Powell's latest makes struggling with questions look easy. http://tmne.ws/14295about 19 hours ago
Weekend Edition
Latest F.B.I. push into hedge-fund crimes brings charges against 14.
Army psychiatrist, now in custody, kills 12 at Texas’s Fort Hood.
London mayor rescues woman from the grips of “feral kids” and “hoodie-clad oiks.”
Turns out the Large Hadron Collider failed due to “an errant chunk of baguette.”
See also: In the event that you have accidentally swallowed the Higgs boson.
Heirloom design: a panacea for consumption.
German programmer codes a field.
Man attempts to visit town that exists on Google Maps but not in real life.
Beware hyperopia: an excess of farsightedness.
T-Mobile study says 22 percent of men are “metrotextuals”— signing their texts with kisses.
Cellphones likely outnumber lightbulbs in some parts of Uganda.
Charles Simic on military fast food abroad, and why it’s an insult to natives.
How to turn food from vending machines into gourmet fare.
Army study shows three-quarters of American youth are too fat or poorly educated to serve.
INFINITE SUMMER
Dracula
Sponsored by TMN, the online book club reads the vampire novel that sired them all.» READ ALONG
The Golem Blog
Test Post
Rather than shopping or a pottery workshop, blogging shows promise as a fun, “couple-y” activity. THE GOLEM writes the entry that took a thousand years.Diversions
Cloud of Atlases
Maps without legends may not be immediately informative, but determining what they represent is extremely fun. If you’re into that kind of thing, THE EDITORS have a game for you.Opinions
A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families
Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for “a clippy bit,” you know exactly what to hand him. GILES TURNBULL surveys a caucus of children.
Abhay Khosla
The comic-book critic and creator of the scatalogical, clip-art version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula talks shop.
The most damaging deficit with which poor and minority children must cope is their deficit of hope.
Question, Questions, Questions?
Padgett Powell’s bebop solo of a book is 164 pages of interrogatory—that’s right, questions.
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