oh my… a marvelous Time Sink

from my most favoritest food blog

nicely done, but plenty more to be added and said

I admire Mattias Adolfsson's gentle touch and [very Swedish] wry mien… 'Dutch Humor' indeed…

What a dolorous and gruesome, not to say shriveled and puny, array of Topics… so glad I'm a long-serving renegade

Even better than what I was imagining 10 or so years ago, when I was playing with GIS and historical datasets

via Bruce Sterling, a gem of the obvious but unuttered: "…a vast trade in illicit goods and services: black markets run by 'deviant entrepreneurs' who see the world’s prohibitions as opportunities for extracting windfall profits… Narcotics trafficking; sex tourism; computer hacking; money laundering; stolen artworks and antiquities; illegally harvested timber, oil, and diamonds; counterfeit medicine, software, and luxury brands; and a globally networked market for human organs…"

NB that Boston is an exception to the general pattern… and wouldn’t it be interesting to factor in data on mortgage disasters for the same decade

A realm in which I should play more often, if only to keep my hand in

in case warping the mind is on today's agenda… a set of concepts I've been wrestling with for 40-odd years, and this is the clearest exposition I've run into

from Dave Weinberger, part of a work in progress ("…about what happens to knowledge and expertise now that we are faced with the fact that there is way way way more to know than can be known by any individual. Its hypothesis is that knowledge and expertise are becoming networks, and are taking on the properties of networks"). What especially interests me is the possibility to download and then sort by various columns –to group sources together, to follow by dates, etc., just the sort of thing one might wish to do with any large bibliography, and even more interesting where there are URLs to follow