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Today MOMA announced that it is collecting video games as examples that "emphasize not only the visual quality and aesthetic experience of each game, but also the many other aspects—from the elegance of the code to the design of the player’s behavior—that pertain to interaction design".  I always imagined Mario shaking his fist at the horribly mysterious plumbing design. "

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The Atlantic has a wonderful post on what writers did when not writing, which is basically, earning a living. Anne Sexton was a fashion model. Sylvia Plath was a receptionist. Kafka was a legal secretary. It's a nice reminder that being a writer isn't a career, but a way of life. If you're like me and have a soft spot for biographical criticism, the Atlantic also has a neat list of the

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If only I could train my dogs to tap dance for food! (Thanks, JC!) So, what if your wedding venue burned down the night before? O_o (Thanks, PB!) Elizabeth Taylor in Iran. (Thanks, BH!) Did the NYPD tip off the NYTimes about the Occupy Wall Street eviction? Good questions from the readers of Naked Capitalism. Yup, the NYPD are not above pepper spraying the small dogs of OWS. In other news

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The short story genre is hard to master. Many try, and many fail in crafting the perfect short story. It is, in some ways, a more challenging genre to work with than say, a novel. Short stories demand brevity and complexity, and unlike novel writers who have the luxury of time and page count in developing thoughtful characters, the short story author must define the narrative stakes quickly,

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We here in New York were treated ::ahem:: to an early snowstorm over Halloween weekend. It turned out to be a great though, as the dogs and I hunkered down to some good movies, spooky books, and popcorn. Naturally, we couldn't last the whole weekend without a treat, so I tricked the dogs into having some ice cream. Ok, it was more like tricking them into wearing paper ice cream cones, and I made

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This awesome hammock boat is courtesy of the kiddos at UC Davis. Happy Friday, folks! I saw this fierce set of talons yesterday. Inquire on Mulberry Street, NY, in case you've lost an alligator foot. Who killed Che? Forget Ironman. Aspire to overcome the Death Race, a 45 mile course that involves crawling under barbed wire, lugging bags of pennies, and chopping wood. Pw to view the

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What I love about language Is what I love about fog: What comes between us and things Grants them shine. - "Fog Suite", Mark Doty This fall, the Wallach Art Gallery is showing a fantastic collection from Xu Bing, one of China’s most prominent contemporary artists. Despite the growing number of talented Chinese artists exhibiting internationally, Xu Bing’s work stands out for its provocative

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For regular updates on news, marches, and updates on what's happening, check out their site. Brown people in Occupy Wall Street. OccupyTheHood:"If white people got the cold, we got the flu". Bonus points to the people who donated not only food, clothing, shoes, but tampons to the protest! Over 3000 protesters occupied Washington Square Park today. I dig the guy with the ball and chain of

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Terrorists in love. Monsanto, that terrifying bio-tech company, gets sued for bio-piracy. Shoplifters of the world, unite! Ok, so what if vaccinations "caused" autism? It definitely doesn't, but let's see what would happen if it did. Gene Luen Yang, author of the award winning "ABC", has a new book out, "Level up". I saw him read from it last night, and it was great. Apparently it was

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"The words of the world want to make sentences." - Gaston Bachelard My grandmother does not know, but her talent for languages is the one I wished I inherited the most. She speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, several other Chinese dialects, and has picked up English quite well over the years, in addition to bits of Vietnamese. During the 50s, she worked as a radio host during the string

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It's Friday. Go ahead. Indulge yourself with a video of puppies. Third hand smoke can mess you up too. Not ready for marriage? Try moving to Mexico, where you can get a "temporary marriage license". Thanks, for sharing PB! The words of the world are endangered! Jonathan Franzen growing up, 50 years later. "Reign Man"! Oh, Hipster Hitler. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['

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Hey folks, I aim to be launching my new web comic series, Theory Dogs, very soon. The comic will follow the (mis)adventures of my two dogs, Kuvi and Kaila, exploring the world through critical theory. So far, Kuvi’s favorite philosophers include Foucault, Lacan, Marx, and Zizek. If you have any suggestions on any critical theory the canines should tackle, please let me know! I’m considering

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Yesterday I saw an elderly couple standing by the bus stop. His wife is standing with her arms folded. She is frowning. The older man, slightly hunched carrying a bag of groceries, turns to his wife and sighs. "We've been waiting for this bus forever. I'm going to die before it finally shows up." I don't know if there is a better (worse?) place than a bus stop to make a death joke. But kudos

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We've known for awhile that patent laws are stifling innovation, but it must be pretty bad when the OECD says it's inhibiting growth. The Museum of Children's Art in Oakland was going to show an exhibit on art made by Palestinian children during wartime, but "concerned parents" compelled the museum to shut it down. If you would take your kid to the Holocaust Museum though, you should have no

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An online game rewarding players for correctly decoding a complex protein solved a 15 year old AIDS problem. The game enabled users to model the enzyme, Mason-Pfizer monkey virus (M-PMV) retroviral protease, in just three weeks. Technically though, the correct answer was found in just ten days; the time span for the game was 3 weeks. From the Huffington Post: scientists experimented with giving

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Fearless bikers coast down mountain "spines" in Utah through sharp rocks, cranky cacti, vertical drops, ridiculously skinny "trails". Mexico deploys comics to fight drug wars, sneaks in a cierto/falso section to test the kids. Que extraño. Birth of the Cylons? Starbuck get your gun. Finally, being a computer nerd is cool, possibly leading to money, fame and ladies. Rub a dub dub, 3

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Occasionally, it is familiar for New Yorkers to see two huge spotlights shine into the night sky. Over the years, the two towers have come to exemplify a beacon of American resilience, protecting and guiding us into what remains an uncertain future. And yet, to see the lights extend higher and higher into the clouds is to feel the uncomfortable confusion of how to remember. When I see the ghostly

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Steve Almond keeps it real on why overindulging in 9/11 lamentations is narcissistic and distracts from the thousands of other people in the world who continue to die and suffer everyday. The New Yorker posted a time-lapse video of the 9/11 memorial under construction. Obama talks about September 11. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-25565833-1']); _gaq.push(['

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Today Reza Aslan wrote on the “two fires” that have illuminated and burned throughout the decade following 9/11. As its anniversary nears, he reminds us American readers that the intended audience of 9/11 was never really us, but to Muslims around the world to “wake up” and do something about oppression, poverty, and inequality in their home countries. There were ostensibly many reasons why Al

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Yes, there could be a scientific rationale of why you're happy, or why you're not. Via BH at Salon Anthro - Meet Henri, the existential cat. On women and guns, victims and victimizers, in Libya. Jail is the "new" madhouse as the mentally ill struggle within the American prison system. I wouldn't necessarily call it a "wake up call", but one can easily imagine that riots are most likely to

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Last month, I checked out the Mark Bradford exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. It will be closing as of September 18, but according to the exhibition’s microsite, the collection will be making stops at a couple other cities, including the Dallas Museum of Art and SF’s MOMA, which is fantastic because the exhibit offers a visually stunning, contemplative collection on Mark

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A reminder of when women were holistically judged on things like making coffee, and men were ok with being jerks about it. A new study from the Pew Center of Research found that agnostics, atheists, Jews and Mormons were on average more knowledgeable on religion than Christian groups. Go God(s)! According to a new report by a Chinese environmental group, Apple products leave a toxic trail.

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So tonight I watched LMFAO's mv, "Shots". In the mv, DJs Redfoo and Skyblu basically party as hard as any musical celebrity can possibly be expected to party. They have all the right ingredients for a good party: booze, women, and a subwoofer (and laptop actually). The mv is set in a lackadaisical outdoor pool full of snooty, boring people who do silly things like read a magazine, misfire

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Last weekend I watched “(A)sexual,” a documentary about the asexual community, a group of people who experience no sexual attraction. It was a thoughtful exploration of this growing community and offered a nuanced portrait of David Jay, an asexual who “came out” to his parents about it in 2000. He has no problems about being asexual, though he recognized that his lack of sexuality didn’t align

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When I first read What Is the What?, the grammatical strangeness of the title continued to haunt me. What did it mean? How does one invest meaning in such an unstable signifier? But instead of seeing it as a static unit of meaning, thinking about it lead me to understand how the symbolic significance of the What constantly evolves throughout the novel. At first, the What is described as the key

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