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apps Monty Python co-founder Terry Jones's last major project was this Canterbury Tales app David Pescovitz

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

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books Deluxe edition of Philip K. Dick’s Ubik John Struan

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happy mutants Science fiction and the law: beyond mere courtroom drama Cory Doctorow

politics An annotated bibliography of anarchism in science fiction Cory Doctorow

libraries New Yorker calls a Sylvia Plath story "lost," but it is easy to find Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Argentine hacker mods Furby so it quotes Borges, creates a "Borgy" Cory Doctorow

literature Tips for overcoming reader's block Rob Beschizza

art Former Archbishop of Canterbury on Tolkien as a warning against fascism Rob Beschizza

literature Slow reading is better than speed reading Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Frankenbook: collective annotations on Mary Shelley's 200 year old novel "Frankenstein" Cory Doctorow

sexism Man angry at famous woman's appointment to literary society Rob Beschizza