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Today's links Shopping isn't politics: The personal isn't political. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Neither arphid nor RFID; Gor novel sex slave cult; Violent economist sex criminals; Vade et caca in pilleum...
In 2024, I announced that I was quitting my high paying tech job to become a high school computer science teacher. This Big Scary Thing™, as I called it, was a huge leap of faith; I had no formal experience in education, but I had spent...
Steve Roud’s Folk Song in England is monumental, in that if I hit someone with it they’d definitely be knocked out. Joking aside, though, it’s quite the survey of the history of […]
Out this week from Belt Publishing: Boston in 50 Maps by Andy Woodruff. From the publisher: Covering four distinct categories (“The Making of Boston,” “The Lay of the Land,” “Getting Around,” and “People and Culture”… More
A classic investigation board (of conjoined twins) appears in Two [Dos] (dir. Mar Targarona, 2021).
In today's rant I complain that I now sound like every other YouTuber.
JR, Jene-René, photographer and street artist, has created a cavern on the Pont-Neuf Bridge in Paris, and is, yes, a homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s The Pont Neuf Wrapped of 40 years ago. JR’s ‘Caverne’ is a temporary...
My first game console was Pong, which was THE first game console. Pong was created a few years before I was born, but by the time I could twiddle a knob it was the only thing in the household to jack into a TV. From there, we had an...
A memorial gallery of useless websites that once lived on The Useless Web and have since gone offline, been squatted, or otherwise vanished. theuselessweb.com/sites-we-lost
Bob Dylan - Headin’ SouthEarlier this week, we checked out what Bob Dylan was doing 60 years ago. Now, how about 50 years ago? Ray Padgett has put together an alternate Hard Rain collection, which — like the OG — is made up of SBD...