Lovely 3 minute breakdown of electronic music. Kottke had a couple good links this evening.
JEFF the Brotherhood, “Bone Jam”
((via Scott Stevens on a snowboard (watch for the UMass campus in the last shot)) via Kottke)
those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
—voltaire
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes
Neatly explains why 98% of the corporations in our lives are steaming piles of shit.
Let’s Start Paying College Athletes - NYTimes.com
Cleaning out my Instapaper queue. This is a sort of follow up to the big article on NCAA insanity in the Atlantic from October.
Adam Shatz · Whose Egypt? · LRB 5 January 2012
“The awakening is not over, but the heady days of the Arab Spring have come to an end. The counter-revolution, Régis Debray once observed, is revolutionised by the revolution.”
Longish look at the various parties vying for power primarily in Egypt but also across the Middle East. The Arab Spring movements brings to mind Fukuyama’s End of History essay, and I wonder what a non-Western and possibly conservative Islamic democracy would look like or if it could even exist.
i don’t try to describe the future. i try to prevent it.
—ray bradbury
