Today in The Nation: Alone Among Ghosts, written 2 days ago, Marcela Valdes Roberto Bolaño's last novel, 2666, is his most profound exploration of art and infamy, craft and crime, the writer and the totalitarian state.

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Hacked!, written 1 week ago, It’s one of those Internet inevitabilities: Hang around the Web long enough, and you’re gonna get hacked by some dude named Alexei in Estonia who’s carrying out his master plan to take over every URL in creation and repurpose them all for Japanese vomit porn. Or ma...

One If By Jalopy, Three If By Corporate Jet, written 2 days ago, David Kusnet was chief speechwriter for former President Bill Clinton from 1992-1994. He is the author of Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers Are Unhappier than Ever.     When the CEO's of the Big Three U.S. a...

YARPP, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin For WordPress, written 2 days ago, We’ve recently started using the WordPress plugin Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) by mitcho to show possibly related posts on Laughing Squid blog. It works much better than most of the other related posts plugins w...

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World’s Most Expensive Homes, Now at Reduced Prices, written 3 days ago, Remember the good old days of 2007, when there was a flood of homes on the market for $100 million or more? Well, there isn't much left for the panicked, $100-million-plus buyer who needs a place to live. Here's a sa...

Saying Goodbye to China: Top 10 Authentic Travel Experiences, written 5 days ago, 43 posts and 16 photo sets later, we’ve reached the end of a long road of reflection on China, an on-the-fly addition to our around-the-world journey. The impetus to change our itinerary occurred while we were in ...

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Whats a good date for a 4 month anniversary with..., written 5 days ago, Whats a good date for a 4 month anniversary with a girlfriend?, cheap because im a broke college student, this means a little more though than your average 4 month cause its the first time in a while we've seen each other. An...

welcome to my tiny urban paradise, said Princess Haiku, written 2 days ago, . I have followed the way of the chrysanthemum, says Princess Haiku into a discourse of persistence, excitement, difficulty and delayed bloom And finally, Mother Nature has grown magical spider chrysanthemum blooms with be...

A Bailout for Homeowners?, written 1 day ago, (Photo by Robin Holland) This week on the JOURNAL, guest host Deborah Amos spoke with NEW YORK TIMES business columnist Joe Nocera about the recent federal bailouts of large institutions and what might happen next. Nocera said that the federal gove...

Perhaps Marx was right after all, written 6 days ago, All this talk of an imminent financial crisis on an unprecedented scale has made me wonder whether Karl Marx might have been right all along. The financial meltdown certainly makes a change from that other popular discourse of the apocalypse - th...

Fetus Cookie Cutter, written 6 days ago, Fetus cookie cutter. What else do you need to say?

Where's the Library Bailout Plan?, written 3 days ago, The housing collapse has dire implications for public libraries

An Apology For My Recent Absence, written 6 days ago, I wanted to update readers on my seeming silence. In the aftermath of the election, it was clear that I needed a little time off from blogging. Having no idea when I would find new inspiration, I've been hesitant to offer an apology without knowi...

Technoccult SEO: Veteran WordPress advice from Klintron, written 2 days ago, I just did a guest post over at Justin Boland’s Pizza SEO: I’ve been blogging since the dark ages of 1999. My oldest and most popular blog is Technoccult, which I’ve been doing since 2001. My most important tips are n...

Amitav Ghosh and his Sea of Poppies, written 2 days ago, Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Amitav Ghosh. (67 minutes, 31 mb mp3) Amitav Ghosh: on addiction and amnesia The Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh brings the British Empire to life again — the other side of the story, so to speak, ...

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