My 500th Post! And happy Independence Day!
How I was keeping my mind clean this week:
- INFOPORN: The history of modern communciation.
- Libertarians! They're so funny!
- Lest we forget: Uruguay are lucky fucking bastards.
- To paraphrase McCrystal, "When we understand this chart, we'll have solved our energy crisis."
How I was keeping my mind fit this week:
- Neurology 1: the writer who couldn't read.
- Neurology 2: alcoholism and the pre-frontal cortex.
Important facts:
- Disease may lower average IQ in a nation.
- Good news: government deficit is mirrored by private savings.
- Oh hey guess what, filesharing didn't kill artists or innovation.
- When to buy, when to rent.
- New York State has successfully prosecuted people who scam older people as performing hate crimes.
- How your Google works.
Things to watch in the future:
- This one is big-ticket: Our old friend J. Holtham/99 Seats is co-founding an African-American Theater Festival. Color me excited! It's one thing to do the self-interested thing and self-produce, it's another thing to share that gift with your community.
- England may vote to rewrite its election laws. I'm always excited when people re-examine the structure of their government, and England's voting has some room for improvement.
