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Word is trickling out of Bell Labs that Alexander Graham Bell is developing a device that will supplant the telegraph. While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist's horn or ear-candle in form...

Scans of the illustrations that Andy Warhol did for a children's story called The Little Red Hen. Tags: Andy Warhol   books

Free Errol! orig. from Nov 20, 2009 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here. Tags: post updates

The American Museum of Natural History is displaying a 11'x4' tapestry woven made completely of spider silk. It took four years, required more than one million spiders, and cost $500,000 to make...

In The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office" and the followup The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk, Venkatesh Rao dissects and analyzes the American version of The Office to a degree I hadn't thought was possible...

In his excellent NY Times blog, Christoph Niemann uses leaves to illustrate a forest of ideas. Tags: Christoph Niemann

Photo by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue, December 2009. (via djacobs) Tags: Annie Leibovitz   Cate Blanchett   photography

Fascinating and disturbing story about a male student who posed as female online and got several of his male classmates to send him naked pictures of themselves. Which led to extortion and eventual arrest...

The Times has published an extract of Vladimir Nabokov's supposed-to-be-destroyed final novel, The Original of Laura. The book is out on Tuesday; cover by Chip Kidd. Tags: books   The Original of Laura   Vladimir Nabokov

In stop motion animation, Wes Anderson has found the perfect medium for telling his special brand of precise yet fanciful tales. I won't go so far as to say that it's his best film -- Rushmore will be difficult to dislodge from its perch -- but there are some pretty special moments in Fantastic Mr...

London call girl blogger Belle de Jour has outed herself and, surprise, she's a hot nerd. Her name is Dr Brooke Magnanti. Her specialist areas are developmental neurotoxicology and cancer epidemiology...

The cover of this week's NY Times Magazine features Megan Fox. If she's so manufactured, shouldn't she do something about that toe thumb of hers? (Sorry Fox fans, once you see the toe thumb, it's impossible to unsee.) Tags: Megan Fox

Just out. Haven't listened yet (downloading now) but if the last three are any indication, this is gonna be a great Monday for listenin'. Sample tracks: 5. Lil Wayne (feat. Babyface) vs Royksopp - Comfortable Up Here 15. Michael Jackson vs Ratatat - Billie "Wildcat" Jean 19. R. Kelly (feat...

Somehow not sold out yet: Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach talk about The Fantastic Mr. Fox at the 42nd St. NYPL tonight. Tickets here. Tags: fantasticmrfox   movies   noahbaumbach   NYPL   Wes Anderson