and nonsense:

• Apple announces “AtticAuthor”
• Howard Dean = The Grateful Dead
• Strictly Kev’s “raiding the 20th century” mix must be listened to in order to believe it.
• The Helsinki Zoo International Open Ice Sculpture Competition
• Fastcompany: If He’s So Smart…Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation
• Ben Hyde: Friends of Moore’s Law
• “I Like!”
• SPEECH ACTS: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry
• “Design in a VC [Virtual Community] can actually be performed using speech acts that in-real-life wouldn’t perform any design. We call these acts `design speech acts’.”
• Lee Smolin and Loop Quantum gravity: “Nature is a unity. This pen is made of atoms and it falls in the earth’s gravitational field.”
• Foe’s books arrived from the shipping company – time to reread Walter Benjamin “Unpacking my library”