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