• La pomme de tête
• Old Testamental

I have a weakness for string quartets. Currently listening to He Poos Clouds by Final Fantasy. Crazy cabaret songwriting for strings, voices, slight electronic massaging, possibly a score for a Marcel Dzama operetta, and so on...

I'm not sure, but the cover looks like it might be by Florence Manlik.

Via Artists Unite: shades of Mark Amerika's Grammatron, the web site of grafitti godfather Futura 2000.

Via Beyond the Beyond, Jaron Lanier on the hive mind:

The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used; how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly. And that is part of the larger pattern of the appeal of a new online collectivism that is nothing less than a resurgence of the idea that the collective is all-wise, that it is desirable to have influence concentrated in a bottleneck that can channel the collective with the most verity and force. This is different from representative democracy, or meritocracy. This idea has had dreadful consequences when thrust upon us from the extreme Right or the extreme Left in various historical periods. The fact that it's now being re-introduced today by prominent technologists and futurists, people who in many cases I know and like, doesn't make it any less dangerous.