Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an Expansion – NYTimes.com “Cisco’s plan is to create networks of sensors and data analysis systems, working closely with government officials and civil engineering companies. And it will work with companies to set up efficient mining, manufacturing and distribution systems.”

Simulated brain mimics human quirks “Just like human volunteers, Spaun was better at remembering the first and last number in a series. Also like people, Spaun took longer to count to higher numbers.”

Nick Cave’s Love Song Lecture “Though the love song comes in many guises – songs of exultation and praise, songs of rage and of despair, erotic songs, songs of abandonment and loss – they all address God, for it is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits.”

GOP Scared Stiff by Copyright Paper Walter Russell Mead, Via Meadia

D-Day: NBC 2:50–3AM — Ford’s Sensorium — Medium

Maj-Gen Tony Deane-Drummond Quite an obituary.

Seth’s Blog: Confusing lucky with good “So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.”

It is Sometimes Appropriate… Arnold Kling, askblog

Ibrahimovic Is The Biggest Boy In The Paris Hood “For Ibrahimović, the mesmerizing footwork and cheeky goals have become the flags of Rosengård he plants in each enemy pitch. Someone somewhere must have written a Ph.D. thesis on the Zlatan phenomenon as symptomatic of rapidly transforming Swedish society.”

Individualism Uber Alles Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher