Tweeting Through Time: 7 Minimalists in 140 Characters
January 15, 2013

Minimalist writers are everywhere. They write the blogs you peruse, the copy on your cereal box and, of course, the pithy tweets you glance over every morning. Let's look at their pre-social media forebears — from Sappho to Bukowski — and imagine what their Twitter accounts would look like.

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Book Sword: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Basho, & E.B. White
January 02, 2013

Everyone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?

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Why UNIONMADE Doesn't Need to Be Union-Made
December 07, 2012

Clothing company UNIONMADE, which sells goods that are not union-made, has been in the news recently for being a bunch of lying shitheels. Apparently some people don’t like their misleading name, but their PR department doesn’t know what the big deal is.

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