Catching Up
I fell asleep at the helm, and now have a whole lot of things to look in to.
- A collection of award-winning photos by Rémi Ochlik, who was killed this week in Syria.
- The Public Domain Review is one year old as of Jan 1, 2012. It’s like a mashup of New York/London Review of Books, Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.
- Satellite views of the world’s largest slums
- “There are two ways to fish, with nets or without. But if I fish with violence, will my nets be full of blood?“ Fishing Without Nets is a short film about Somali pirates from their point of view, which won the recent Sundance Jury Prize in short filmmaking.
- How a swashbuckling breed of mathematicians and computer scientists nearly destroyed Wall Street.
- Australian Woman Scams More Than $30,000 From Nigerian Scam Artists
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“Dude,” the quintessential American slang term, may have been brought to the U.S. by immigrants.
