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Late Twitter
warrenellis: Morning, Computer: Late Twitter – It’s a pity that I’ve been able to feel Twitter slow down and grow less porous over the last year — before I could have it running at its peak on multiple screens. That, I fantasised, would be a marvellous way to detect the future leaking into the present.…
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ikirejones: From Sri Lanka…with Love.“I’d gone to bed in Hong Kong. A night full of regrets. And a do-not-disturb sign left swinging grimly from my hotel room door-knob like the newly hoisted frame of a young Southerner who had been seen cavorting with the wrong woman in the wrong era of American history. I awoke…
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blerchin: The 2000 United States Census revealed that there are more people who identify their primary occupation as “artist” than as lawyer, doctor, or police officer combined. And each year, our schools graduate another 100,000 students with arts-oriented BFAs, MFAs, and PhDs. Since 7 of the 10 most expensive schools in the country are art…
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But the World Cup has ended that run, while simultaneously providing plentiful resources for solving the underlying problem. Thus, yesterday, as Brazil squeaked to victory, I read The Laws Of The Game. It turns out that not only does football consider itself above having anything as commonplace as ‘rules’, it also considers itself above having…