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TED conferences have added a new kind of narrative to the publick conversation of the life of the mind. Story telling, not power points, are key. Good for them! I'd like to conceptually couch my thoughts on some topics in such a wrapper.... well one of these days, after I clean that closet. TED is so well formed in its prez, that it can be mocked, as Onion has done in What Is The Biggest Rock. Look out above!

The digitization of everything is an elixir for some people. It spawns visions. If we could only open up all the data…how about taking the college facebook and putting it on line …. why not street-level and satellite-level photos of every home in the U.S. of A. Ok! Build and sell a picture database of all the license plates on all the cars and trucks on the road? Gee, I don't know. Click here for It's the data talking item

Incredible Victory paints a vivid portrait of the battle of Midway, which was a critical encounter in world history. Walter Lord's story of the battle of Midway artfully covers the strategy involved. But more importantly, it also conveys a telling feeling for the human story of the clash. When the smoke cleared and the battle was over three Japanese carriers and one U.S. carrier were gone, and Midway remained a U.S. outpost. Mere months after the crushing blow of Pearl Harbor, the battle showed the potential for America to come back. The books title title is no hype. It was an incredible victory. More

Many years frigging ago, Dave and Jim discovered  bootlegs  of Dylan via an encounter with White Panthers or Yippies in Milwaukee, driving a  Cadillac , who had copies of  Tarantula  with A.J. Weberman's intro, in the trunk...all of this was a passport to strange existential mysticism for us, like the Beatles "Paul is Dead"  adventure , but of far more  import  and essnece... Here is Larry Sloman's take... on something similar  whist  was floatin around the midwest and else where back in these hemp flavored days.. as editor of the Cardinal... Larry became known to us (if memory serves me well) through big Jim Cusimano, who was Dave's English teacher at Whitewater, and through Paul DeMark via Harry Duncan, as part of the Madison Blues Coop. Writes Larry .. . I was there at the birth of the first Dylan bootleg. Oddly enough, I was in a line with my friend Mitch waiting to see Procol Harum and the Byrds per...