From http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/09/01/calexico-joey-burns-the-ad-interview/
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Kevin Smith
There are no people in ksmith’s collective.
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Calexico :: Guns of Brixton
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A brief digression on matters of lost time by John Hodgman
Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love.
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Steven Pinker: A brief history of violence
Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species’ existence.
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Steven Pinker: Chalking it up to the blank slate
It’s another Ted talk from Steven Pinker, this time focusing on the subject matter of his book The Blank Slate.
"The creative human intelligence which personified a mouse and called him Mickey is the exact same creative intelligence which personified a universe and called him God"
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Designing our way through data
Jeffrey Veen speaking at Web Directions South 2008.
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Late Bloomers
Malcolm Gladwell asks why we equate genius with precocity. Here Gladwell talks about how artistic prodigies differ from late bloomers and the kinds of support over decades that some artists need to realize their gifts.
The full article is here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwell
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FREE: The Economics of Abundance and the Price of Zero
O’Reilly Media Tools of Change Conference 30 minutes, 13.8mb, recorded 2007-06-19
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Steven Pinker: The Stuff of Thought
October 26 2007 - A discussion on Point of Inquiry - Pinker explores what our use of language can tell us about human nature. He discusses our use of metaphors, and what concepts may be innate, how the “language of thought” may be hard-wired in our brains. He also explains how to avoid the pitfalls of such hard-wiring, using the methods of science as the model.
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Bruce Sterling at IDEA 2006
The closing keynote from Bruce Sterling at the IDEA conference held in Seattle in 2006.
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PJ Harvey solo stuff from 92 and 93
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