Who needs a unifying theme anyway?

It's been a while.

My chaos gland

Holy crap

A designer who was asked to design an elevator interface and assumed that it was to carry something other than human beings would indeed be a different kind of thinker. But it’s analogous to asking someone to design a better bus and then being satisfied when they built you a submarine. Or asking for an apple and being hit with a lobster. I mean, why can’t an apple be a lobster? I’ve read Foucault. I can do this all week.

I rugged up, put a jacket on the dog, and took set off on a leisurely one-hour walk down to Fitzroy. The earlier wind had eased, the sun was honey in the sky, and the new Matthew Sweet record twanged on my AirPods. I put on my mirrored aviators to ensure I looked as aloof as possible, but as I strolled down High Street people smiled at me anyway. Everyone smiles at me when I’m walking Hitch.

Are people still here?

Recurring lines

50. The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.

Two decades ago, 1 in 16 Americans believed that Army rule would be a good way to run the country. Today, it is 1 in 6. The picture is even bleaker among the young and affluent: Support for military rule in this group has increased nearly sixfold, from 6 percent to 35 percent.

Yes, Tronc shall take the corn feed of journalism and funnel it into the optimization-group goose, to make delicious foie gras that will be consumed by the digital natives.