It isn't positions which lend distinction,

Tunes for you:

• GAUDI's Psychedelic Future Dub Vol 4.
• Full Moon by the Asaf Sirkis Trio (a name-your-price download)
• ILUITEQ's Soundtracks for Winter Departures
• Descending by Tim Motzer & Markus Reuter

I wish I had learned 88 truths about life. If I had, I might share them like this guy did. #26 Credit card debt devours souls. A bit histrionic, but true otherwise.

Included in these seven tips on writing from William Faulkner is "events in a story should flow naturally according to the character's inner necessity." This jives with something similar another author (whom I've forgotten) said: each character should want something.

Piet Mondrian, The Gray Tree, 1912. There are a few paintings that I've fallen in love with on first sight. One is Monet's Impression Sunrise. Another is this.

On this list of hot leadership topics for 2019 (I'm only two months behind), we find how culture can drive high-performance and innovation.

This article introduces the term SaaB (software as a barrier) in the context of listing 10 things the best software companies do. An interesting statistic about Google is cited: 70% of development time is spent on "building out" their core products, 20% on innovation, and the remaining 10% on what might be coming in 10 years.

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Red and Burgundy Over Blue), 1969. This can be yours at an upcoming Sotheby's auction.

Watch this animated, time-lapse bar chart of the world's most populous cities starting in the year 1500 when the big dog was Beijing.

A collection of vintage press kits from Apollo.

The first periodic table. It's 150 years old.

See the infinite CVS receipt.

Watch Idle, Torrent. Just do it.

The flying butt.

C'mon, play the pink trombone. (No, you perv, not that.)

You've probably seen the clip from The Office where they're watching the DVD logo bounce around the screen. Now you can watch Too Many DVDs.

...but men who enhance positions. ~Agesilaus