Richard P Gabriel has the full text of his Patterns Of Software book available free online as PDF EBook, including forward by Christopher Alexander.

Morphogenesis (from the Greek morphê shape and genesis creation, literally "the generation of form") is the biological process that causes a cell, tissue or organism to develop its shape. It is one of three fundamental aspects of developmental biology along with the control of tissue growth and patterning of cellular differentiation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenesis

Élan vital (French pronunciation: ​[elɑ̃.vital]) is a term coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in his 1907 book Creative Evolution, in which he addresses the question of self-organization and spontaneous morphogenesis (morphogenetic) of things in an increasingly complex manner. Elan vital was translated in the English edition as "vital impetus", but is usually translated by his detractors as "vital force". It is a hypothetical explanation for evolution and development of organisms, which Bergson linked closely with consciousness – with the intuitive perception of experience and the flow of inner time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lan_vital

“Every graph-centric program attempts to expand until it can read/write Twitter. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” (more)

Bionomics: Economy as Ecosystem by Michael Rothschild ISBN:0805019790. A Capitalist Economy can best be comprehended as a living EcoSystem... Briefly stated, information is the essence of both systems... Bionomics holds that Economic Development - and the social change flowing from it - is not shaped by a society's genes, but by its accumulated technical knowledge... (more)

Britt Blaser (with pointers to others: Slashdot, Cory Doctorow, Clay Shirky and John Robb) on Everett Ehrlich's article applying Ronald Coase's Theory Of The Firm to Political Party formation. (more)

Azeem Azhar: Blurring the Coasian Boundary (more)

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill,[1] KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

Lion Kimbro wants a Sudbury School for adults - CommunityWiki:SudburySchoolForAdults. Hacker Spaces? (more)

alternatives to There Is But One Infinite Game (more)

New MacBookPro arrived today. (2020-09-23) Time To Replace MacBookPro (more)

for Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems (more)

As people are re-discovering the "digital garden" metaphor, I decided to pull together some links here.... (more)

Mike Caulfield framing of Social Media streams, being history-less. (more)

appropriations bills in the US Congress designed largely to piss tax dollars into the home districts of powerful Congressmen. see Pork Barrel, EarMark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_spending_bill (more)

Projects specifically financed by laws passed by the US Congress, rather than leaving allocations up to administrative agencies. (more)

David Allan Stewart (born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox.[2] Normally credited as David A. Stewart, he won Best British Producer at the 1986, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Stewart_(musician_and_producer) (more)

Dave Stewart (the Eurythmics) launches the Artist Network, an "artist-friendly" entertainment biz, based on a core indie record label. At its core there is an independent record label, which will offer musicians more generous royalty rates than conventional deals, more transparent contracts and a greater degree of creative freedom and artistic development... "We can have a model which will make money on say 50,000 to 100,000 sales"... Furthermore, the entertainment industry is littered with failed attempts at artist empowerment. In the 1990s, George Michael launched Aegean, a record label with similar aims to Artist Network, but it didn't survive for long. And there was, of course, Tony Wilson's FactoryRecords, which was geared to serve the people that recorded for it. It had a 50/50 profits split between label and artists, a "non-contract contract" which gave the workers ownership of their own products. It went bankrupt in 1992. Given the concentration/corruption in the radio biz and music stores, I don't think this structure is different enough to fly (Business Models For Information). (more)

Dave Stewart book ASIN:B00XIYG8VA (more)

Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American funk music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s. Their distinctive funk style drew on psychedelic culture, outlandish fashion, science-fiction, and surreal humor;[1] it would have an influential effect on subsequent funk, post-punk, hip-hop, and post-disco artists of the 1980s and 1990s,[2] while their collective mythology would help pioneer Afrofuturism.[3] The collective's origins date back to the doo-wop group the Parliaments, formed by Clinton in the late 1950s in suburban Plainfield, New Jersey. Under the influence of late-1960s artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, and Frank Zappa, Clinton later relocated to Detroit and began the sister groups Parliament and Funkadelic, with the former playing an eclectic and more commercial form of funk, and the latter incorporating more influence from psychedelic rock.[4] The groups released albums such as Maggot Brain (1971), Mothership Connection (1975), and One Nation Under a Groove (1978) to critical praise, and scored charting hits with singles such as "Give Up the Funk" (1976), "One Nation Under a Groove" (1978), and "Flash Light" (1978). Overall, the collective achieved thirteen top ten hits in the American R&B music charts between 1967 and 1983, including six number one hits. The name "Parliament-Funkadelic" became the catch-all term for the dozens of related musicians recording and touring different projects in Clinton's orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament-Funkadelic