Ben Fry: "The idea that we can actually see change over time in a person’s thinking is fascinating…"

Ben Fry's marvelous and innovative presentation, several Educations (and 6 editions) with a single URL

"…Reagan-Cheney between 1980 and 2008 created a new American aristocracy, a small sliver of super-rich, who buy and sell legislators, create whole "news networks" to present far rightwing fantasies as "news," have their lackeys invade and occupy whole countries, hold themselves above the law, falsify financial statements, and suffer little or no punishment for stealing billions from the pensions of "working families" (i.e. those of us about whom P.T. Barnum remarked, "one is born every minute".)…

oh my… many thousands, and clearly this is just a glimpse of the tips of the Ears of the Hippopotamus

via ZeFrank, a fascinating gem of archival sound

…amazing… (via BoingBoing)

as apt a use of the phrase as you'll find

lots of fun to try out, and I'm tolerably pleased with my first attempt

OMSFG

from Music For Maniacs, and sui generis to be sure

Eloquent as always, and I especially like this bit of Good Sense: "…Since when are universities not corporations? Best that I can tell, most universities are fundamentally real estate barons who gain public credibility by offering higher education…"