Urban Design Framing: hoping to combine the best aspects of city and village (more)

The rise of the ambient video game (more)

(from 2003) Given that there are a limited number of musical tones, it seems to me there's a limited number of songs that could be written. Could you auto-generate songs and then demand licenses for every new ditty that came out? How about if you simpify the idea to reduce the number of combinations? Just go for a accomplishing a "similar sounding hook", which might be enough to cause trouble. (more)

Family Farm operator - beyond Grass-Fed (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Weirding Diary: 11. We’re barely seven weeks into 2020, and it’s already the weirdest year in my living memory. (more)

there are [n] kinds of people... (more)

Diagram of a customer persona's trip through a product/services experience lifecycle

pseudo-PublicSpace of the Suburb (more)

belief in the existence of One True God (more)

Julian Shapiro: What you should be working on. I spent an hour listing out everything I cared about — from human connection, to self-education, to wealth. In the process, I surprised myself: There is a better way to achieve these goals than pursuing a startup. (more)

Marc Andreessen's "Top 10 sci-fi novelists of the '00s -- so far": Charlie Stross, Richard Morgan, Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Peter Hamilton, John Scalzi, Neal Asher, Chris Moriarty, Peter Watts, David Marusek, with bonus Vernor Vinge.

Marc Andreessen on 4 types of Luck (is type4 Magick?) and its importance to the Entrepreneur. Luck is something that every successful entrepreneur will tell you plays a huge role in the difference between success and failure. Many of those successful entrepreneurs will only admit this under duress, though, because if luck does indeed play such a huge role, then that seriously dents the image of the successful entrepreneur as an omniscient business genius. (more)

author: Lolita, Pale Fire, Bend Sinister, Laughter In The Dark, Speak Memory, others... (more)

Prioritized list of Public Policy issues desiring attention by the public from journalists, esp regarding Campaign Coverage. Championed by Jay Rosen: see 2010-08-15-RosenTheCitizensAgendaInCampaignCoverage. (more)

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Coronavirus FAQ: Do Airplane Passengers Not Know There's A Pandemic Going On? In the United States, there is no federal law that requires masking in public spaces. But states do. And U.S. airports follow state public health guidelines in most spaces. (more)

Ezra Klein Opinion: The New COVID-19 Virus Strains Make the Next 6 Weeks Crucial. The B.1.1.7 variant of coronavirus, first seen in Britain, and now spreading throughout Europe, appears to be 30 to 70 percent more contagious, and it may be more lethal, too (more)

COVID-19 UK variant

Still going to the grocery store? With new COVID-19 virus variants (B117) spreading, it’s probably time to stop. We simply need to do what we’ve been doing all along to prevent infections, just much, much better. At an individual level, that means avoiding optional gatherings with other people — even grocery trips — whenever possible, or cutting them very short. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid 12/24: We’re F**ed, It’s Over. A year ago, there were reports coming out of China about a new coronavirus. (COVID-19) The media told us it was nothing to worry about. This past week, it likely happened again. (more)