Julian Lehr: A Meta-Layer for Notes. Hey’s most interesting aspect is not its radical approach to email – but its fresh approach to note taking! (more)

book by Jenny Uglow ISBN:0374194408 about the Lunar Society, focusing on Matthew Boulton, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, Joseph Priestley, and Erasmus Darwin (Charles Darwin's grandfather) (more)

John Robb posits that Pakistan is now a Hollow State. Like Colombia and Iraq, the best source of opposition to the advance of the Taliban will be from wealthy local land owners, businessmen and tribal elders willing to build/hire their own militias and not from the government's uniformed military or its auxiliaries. These militias aren't getting support, instead the opposite is happening: the government is extending authority and legitimacy to the Taliban through promises of self rule. (more)

term from Philip Bobbitt's The Shield Of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History ISBN:0141007559 for what comes after the Nation-State. http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/bobbitt/qna.html (more)

computer-text-internationalization standard (more)

This magical drug mansion in Upstate New York is where the psychedelic ’60s took off (more)

Andrew Thomas Weil (/waɪl/, born June 8, 1942) is an American celebrity doctor who advocates for alternative medicine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Weil (more)

a term I've picked up from Jerry Michalski (more)

WebApp that provides short handles that ReDirect to a longer URI. Often/originally used with Twitter to fit message plus URI into 140char limit (and then they automated it). (more)

Karl Schroeder book (more)

The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is a private organization that seeks to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a counterpoint to what it views as today's "faster/cheaper" mindset and to promote "slower/better" (Slow World) thinking. The Long Now Foundation hopes to "creatively foster responsibility" in the framework of the next 10,000 years, and so uses 5-digit dates to address the Year 10,000 problem[1] (e.g. by writing 02010 rather than 2010). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation (more)

Ted Hope ponders what the indie Film Industry can learn from Etsy. Like Etsy’s efforts to create an intimate relationship between buyers and sellers, if we want a Truly Free Film culture to flourish, we need to increase the intimacy between audiences (True Fan) and creators. We need to erase those lines so it is a truly united Virtual Community. Etsy works to do this through daily emails: (more)

There's a weekend free symposium on General Semantics in NYC Nov 14-15 (argh conflict with Mobile BarCamp). (more)

Jon Lebkowsky (born April 20, 1949) is a web consultant/developer, author, and activist who was the co-founder of FringeWare Review (along with Paco Nathan). FringeWare, an early attempt at ecommerce and online community, published a popular "magalog" called FringeWare Review, and a literary zine edited by Lebkowsky called Unshaved Truths. FringeWare's email list, called the FringeWare News Network, established an international following for the organization, which also opened a store in Austin, Texas. Along with Nancy White, he co-hosts the ongoing Virtual Communities Conference, the Blog Conference, and the public Inkwell Conference at the seminal online community, the WELL. His weblog can be reached at http://www.weblogsky.com. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lebkowsky

Edmund Phelps: Mass Flourishing ISBN:0691165793

To Be Is To Do? (more)

How write Serverless Python? (more)

An alternative to Is A: "Sombunall" (some but not all), created by Robert Anton Wilson (more)

In May 2010, two months after the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) squeaked through Congress, President Obama’s top economic aides were getting worried. Larry Summers, director of the White House’s National Economic Council, and Peter Orszag, head of the Office of Management and Budget, had just received a pointed four-page memo from a trusted outside health adviser (David Cutler). It warned that no one in the administration was “up to the task” of overseeing the construction of an Insurance Exchange (HealthcareGov) and other intricacies of translating the 2,000-page statute into reality. (more)

Healthcare.gov is a Healthcare Exchange website created by and operated under the United States federal government as per the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, often known as 'ObamaCare'), designed to serve the residents of the thirty-six U.S. states that opted not to create their own state exchanges.[1] The PPACA, which was signed into law on March 23, 2010,[2] detailed the exchange system as a way to comparison shop between different possible health insurance options for an individual within his or her state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare.gov (more)