The World According to Yayoi Kusama(The Financial Times)
A very unusual elderly artist whose polkadotted pumpkins fetch the price of a ski condo.
The Art of Endless Upgrades
(Kevin Kelly's kk.org The Technium blog)
I was thinking just the same thing the other day when I had to upgrade my operating system for the second time in a year.
(KK's latest book, What Technology Wants, is on my Top 10 Books Read 2011)
The greatest pug picture ever
(Burro Hall)
By someone who has a highly strange sense of humor.
The Thumb Thing
The Spoonsisters
(Did they just come up with this in the 21st century? I think I need one of these.)
Sam Quinones' True Tales
Cool, generous, amazing, engaging, and frequently updated.
Viral History
A blog hosted by historian Ken Ackerman
Highly recommended. Sign up for the free newsletter.
The Joy of Books Video
Yikes, 2 million plus views already!
People Who Claim to Communicate / Have Communicated with Disembodied Consciousnesses
My updated list for surfers in the more esoteric waters. (Apropos of my translation of Francisco I. Madero's Spiritist Manual of 1911. Stay away from those Ouija boards...)
CleanSlateNow.org
Hopping freaked about about that 2010 Supreme Court decision, Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission? Ken Gordon is doing something about it and so can you.
More anon.
