Busy, busy ...

I don't think I'll be finding a lot of time to post to the blog until after Christmas, I'm just very busy these days. Specifically, the kind of busy that places heavy demands on the brain ... leaving little left for creative thought.

But I can drop links like a pro!

A great article on dolphin intelligence.

A quote of a quote, caught by Bruce Sterling:

"*I wonder what’ll happen to our civilization when people realize that financiers don’t really do very much for the privilege of mishandling all the money. They work extremely hard, don’t get me wrong — they just don’t allocate funds very effectively. Societies top-heavy with financiers are in visible, physical decline — empty houses, unhealthy populations, decaying bridges, hollowed-out industries, that sort of thing.

*You’d think there’d be at least a few nonfinancial guys with tons of money who would look at the financial system and think, “Jeez, anybody could do a better job than THAT.” Source

A coming trend, along with privatization ... the corruption and co-option of law enforcement.

A scary application of system disruptions to coerce behavior in a population:

"The Naxalites don't replace the existing government, as per the 20th Century insurgencies the US COIN doctrine was built to fight. Instead, it extracts the financial rewards akin to what a government would expect." Source