Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Odor-friendly toilets, newly discovered Shakespeare, a monetary celebration of scientists and more in our look at the web this week

1. In Defense of Toulouse-Lautrec To celebrate his would-be 150th birthday, radical French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was celebrated in the latest Google Doodle. For those not already familiar with Toulouse-Lautrec, the tech giant’s bleak portrait of the progressive painter, printmaker and illustrator may create the wrong picture. Though he’s known to many for his work at the Moulin Rouge, the Guardian argues that the …

Beats in Space’s Crazed Caller

Tim Sweeney has been running his eclectic NYC radio show, “Beats in Space,” every Tuesday night since 1999 and has yet to miss a week. Since then, he’s captured the attention of not only music lovers and artists, but one frequent caller who identifies himself only as “Victor Washington Heights.” The anonymous caller’s messages range from Bond-villain to proud, drunken uncle, and while Sweeney admits …