you can’t come in; our tiger has got flu.KLATSCH.ORGTumblr (3.0; @mockguffin)http://klatsch.org/Lovely 3 minute breakdown of electronic music. Kottke had a...<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/V7qnG5rBfO0?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Lovely 3 minute breakdown of electronic music. <a href="http://kottke.org/12/01/what-the-hell-is-dubstep-anyway">Kottke</a> had a couple good links this evening.</p>http://klatsch.org/post/15605318387http://klatsch.org/post/15605318387Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:26:22 -0500JEFF the Brotherhood, “Bone Jam” ((via Scott...<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/I9wmFRSVAKw?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>JEFF the Brotherhood, “Bone Jam”</p> <p>((via <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MQMUIUkw0I">Scott Stevens on a snowboard</a> (watch for the UMass campus in the last shot)) via <a href="http://kottke.org/12/01/the-danny-macaskill-of-snowboarding">Kottke</a>)</p>http://klatsch.org/post/15605199351http://klatsch.org/post/15605199351Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:23:56 -0500those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —voltaire<p>those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.</p> <p><strong>—voltaire</strong></p>http://klatsch.org/post/15377690627http://klatsch.org/post/15377690627Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:34:42 -0500The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/print/">The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes</a>: <p>Neatly explains why 98% of the corporations in our lives are steaming piles of shit.</p>http://klatsch.org/post/15377558938http://klatsch.org/post/15377558938Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:32:21 -0500Let’s Start Paying College Athletes - NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/lets-start-paying-college-athletes.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all">Let’s Start Paying College Athletes - NYTimes.com</a>: <p>Cleaning out my <a href="http://www.instapaper.com/">Instapaper</a> queue. This is a sort of follow up to the big article on <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/8643/">NCAA insanity</a> in the Atlantic from October.</p>http://klatsch.org/post/15377381954http://klatsch.org/post/15377381954Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:29:13 -0500Adam Shatz · Whose Egypt? · LRB 5 January 2012<a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v34/n01/adam-shatz/whose-egypt">Adam Shatz · Whose Egypt? · LRB 5 January 2012</a>: <p>“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.”</p> <p>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 <em>End of History</em> essay, and I wonder what a non-Western and possibly conservative Islamic democracy would look like or if it could even exist.</p>http://klatsch.org/post/15377196566http://klatsch.org/post/15377196566Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:25:57 -0500i don’t try to describe the future. i try to prevent it. —ray bradbury<p>i don’t try to describe the future. i try to prevent it.</p> <p><strong>—ray bradbury</strong></p>http://klatsch.org/post/15112632095http://klatsch.org/post/15112632095Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:20:39 -0500