Abraham Lincoln invented Facebook Jason Kottke, kottke.org

Same-Sex Marriage & Post-Christianity Rod Dreher, Rod Dreher

Inside the Political Brain

If the best art is done because of passion, not money, how can we reward creativity? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree

The American Scholar: Toys and Joys – William Deresiewicz “These are the things that make our lives worth living? When I think about what really makes me happy, what I really crave, I come up with a very different list: concentrated, purposeful work, especially creative work; being with people I love; feeling like I’m part […]

Rod Dreher » Paris, New York, and Disneyworld “For me, I told Hannah, ‘Paris’ is both a place and a way of seeing the world. It means a particular way of approaching beauty, and of living as a kind of art. It is the belief that beauty, however humbly expressed, can and should be a […]

Welcome to the Era of Design – Forbes As Michael Eisner, former CEO of Disney, once said, “A brand is a living entity—and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.”

espiekermann Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.

Michael Norton: How to buy happiness TEDtalksDirector

sweden Foodlovers – listen up! In Stockholm you should eat: Libanese – @Tabbouli. Italian – @Nostrano. Chinese – @Hoo’s. Indian – @Indian Garden.