Fat Cactus
JA
June 05
This week among the spikes:
If velcro and the iPad met, it would be love
The Guardian asks writers Margaret Atwood, Ian Rankin, John Banville and William Boyd et al to ask themselves the questions they always wished they were asked
Michel Vrana tells us what it was like to design the iPad Wired App
Online newspapers were a rare and newfangled thing all the way back in 1981.
The Daily Beast wonders what makes a great literary feud?
McSweeney’s retitles some great works of literature in a bid to boost web traffic
What is Flarf but ‘a hip, digital reaction to [a] kind of boring, genteel poetry’?
Nikki Greenberg speaks about drawing The Great Gatsby
And, apparently, scientists and programmers are now developing a sarcasm software. Great.
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