Topics (updating as we go):
- Two more recent arrivals from CA joined this morning, so we’re running through the usual.
- What’s up with this F1 dust-up?
- Crazy advances in toys
- social war gaming
- Robot Robot & Hwang
- Amazon, Facebook, Svpply, collaborative filtering, turning text into numbers, etc.
- cultural monofarming and the fall of Emo’s
- jobs, protracted unemployment
- The Shallows by Nicholas Carr and The Dumbest Generation
- Texas high school football
- Mexico, the drug war, the border, the climate
- Banjo
- September 28, the greatest regular-season day of MLB in my lifetime
- small towns across West Texas; arrowhead collecting
- Iain McKell new gypsies photography
- Art Outside
- TEDxAustin talks: Robyn O’Brien, Gilbert Tuhabonye, Steven Tomlinson
- Whip In
- Unbroken and Laura Hillenbrand; WWII
- true lasting development and resilient community versus the long con
