6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee | Derek Sivers good advice for incoming students (of music, but most of the advice is of general use)

Prof_BrianCocks Had the rare honour of watching NASA engineers put the moon in position last night. http://t.co/7a3iLKu2

Liber Liber: Musica Open source recordings of classic songs.

No Banks on Mars (author unknown), Dilbert.com Blog

Magazine – The Perfected Self – The Atlantic I need a behavioral modification app for writing.

Racism & Multiculturalism | The American Conservative “It is not always clear how we can keep a right and proper love for our own culture from degenerating into a hatred for the other cultures — and persecution of those living around us who are thought to be threats to our culture.”

David Foster Wallace commencement speech, “This is Water.” “Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for […]

White Resentment, Obama, and Appalachia – Ta-Nehisi Coates – Politics – The Atlantic

Jeffrey Zeldman on his Web Design Manifesto 2012 | Interview | .net magazine “Our cluttered layouts have trained users to ignore ads. Therefore we charge less and less and stick more and more ads on the page. It’s a futile, vicious circle.”

kissane “Facebook is not only on course to go bust, but will take the rest of the ad-supported Web with it.” MIT throws down: http://t.co/UXMiVfzF