Too Bad You Never Knew Ace Hanna

Recently I started reading Václav Havel’s memoirs To the Castle and Back which he wrote in 2005. In his State of the World 2010 Bruce Sterling mentioned Havel’s memoirs as a good illustration of the imp of the perverse:
People don’t need what they want, and don’t want what they need. My intuitions about this [...]

A Story Without Love by Hugh MacLeod
(cc) Hugh MacLeod
And so this story goes:
This morning I found the gapingvoid daily cartoon #7 (The new incarnation of Hugh MacLeod’s Crazy Deranged Fools Newsletter) in my inbox.
This little cartoon immediately put a smile on my face and reminded me of one of my favorite quotes on storytelling. A [...]

Drinking from the Firehose: Why Obama Should Stay the Hell Off Twitter
Colin Delany [@epolitics] gives an interesting perspective on the question whether leading politicians should use Twitter:
But I’d also argue that Twitter is fundamentally a bad match for a Chief Executive, for exactly the same reasons that so many other people are drawn to it. [...]