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&lt;p&gt;stay tuned for more from &lt;a href="http://thewhitness.com/" target="_blank"&gt;The Whitness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/18038609856</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/18038609856</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:18:00 -0500</pubDate><category>whit murray</category><category>The Whitness</category></item><item><title>"in the course of studying how geeks and geezers became leaders, I discovered that their leadership..."</title><description>“in the course of studying how geeks and geezers became leaders, I discovered that their...</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17950668705</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17950668705</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:30:42 -0500</pubDate><category>leadership</category><category>the crucible</category><category>warren bennis</category></item><item><title>new artist</title><description>new artist: … announcing the genesis of The Whitness
led by Mama’s Love guitarist, Whit Murray, The...</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17948826017</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17948826017</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:51:52 -0500</pubDate><category>The Whitness</category><category>whit murray</category></item><item><title>"the explanation for why the sky is blue involves so much of the natural sciences: the colors within..."</title><description>“the explanation for why the sky is blue involves so much of the natural sciences: the colors...</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17764215870</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17764215870</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:36:17 -0500</pubDate><category>nicholas christakis</category><category>EDGE</category></item><item><title>JAM OF THE WEEK after thursday</title><description>JAM OF THE WEEK after thursday: 
Bruce Springsteen’s 1981 song The River depicts the uncertainty of...</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17762026041</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17762026041</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:00:01 -0500</pubDate><category>bruce springsteen</category><category>the river</category></item><item><title>"properly understood, political correctness is our greatest political problem. we always have this..."</title><description>“properly understood, political correctness is our greatest political problem. we always have...</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17709791674</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17709791674</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:30:29 -0500</pubDate><category>peter thiel</category><category>leo strauss</category></item><item><title>"the most creative spaces are those which hurl us together. it is the human friction that makes the..."</title><description>“the most creative spaces are those which hurl us together. it is the human friction that...</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17670881514</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17670881514</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:01:41 -0500</pubDate><category>brainstorming</category></item><item><title>…but it’s also representative of a major leap forward in...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzf493KEhU1qd0edbo1_250.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;…but it’s also representative of a major leap forward in smartphone app design, as it’s been built from the ground up for the touch interface […] t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;here are no buttons, and yet, it’s surprisingly simple to use. in fact, that’s the point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://gregmelander.com/post/17644684153/just-swipe-clear-its-a-representative-of-a" target="_blank"&gt;gregmelander&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clear/id493136154?ls=1&amp;mt=8" target="_blank"&gt;Clear&lt;/a&gt;…it’s a representative of a major leap forward in smartphone app design, as it’s been built from the ground up for the touch interface. The app is based solely on the use of now-common gestures: swipes, pulls and pinches. There are no buttons with Clear, and yet, it’s surprisingly simple to use. In fact, that’s the point.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17656573867</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17656573867</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:08:04 -0500</pubDate><category>UI</category><category>design</category><category>mobile</category></item><item><title>tubrosmedia:

Wilco, Nick Lowe &amp; Mavis Staples rehearse The...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2WmlUXsjSv8?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tubrosmedia.com/post/17655900275/theweight" target="_blank"&gt;tubrosmedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wilco, Nick Lowe &amp; Mavis Staples rehearse &lt;em&gt;The Weight&lt;/em&gt; backstage at the Civic Opera House in Chicago in December 2011.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001ET5WU4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randmusi01-20&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B001ET5WU4&amp;ref_=sr_1_1&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1329312993&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="150" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41STST7xj4L._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="150"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17656392217</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17656392217</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:00:08 -0500</pubDate><category>the weight</category></item><item><title>"the amazing thing about social networks, unlike other networks that are almost as interesting —..."</title><description>“the amazing thing about social networks, unlike other networks that are almost as interesting...</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17620064137</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17620064137</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:19:20 -0500</pubDate><category>network science</category><category>nicholas christakis</category></item><item><title>i shot the sheriff</title><description>i shot the sheriff: 
</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17428308150</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17428308150</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:52:58 -0500</pubDate><category>eric clapton</category><category>JOTWat</category></item><item><title>Solve for X: Juan Enriquez on harnessing synthetic genetics</title><description>Solve for X: Juan Enriquez on harnessing synthetic genetics: 
Life is the software that makes its...</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17266474205</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17266474205</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:00:00 -0500</pubDate><category>solve for x</category><category>synthetic genetics</category></item><item><title>latest from Jack White, machine gun silhouette, the non-LP...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/17262491585/tumblr_lz2sj9sAXz1roh5xe&amp;color=FFFFFF&amp;logo=soundcloud" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;latest from Jack White, machine gun silhouette, the non-LP b-side to &lt;a href="http://store.thirdmanrecords.com/jackwhite-loveinterruption7vinyl.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;love interruption&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://store.thirdmanrecords.com/jackwhite-loveinterruption7vinyl.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="150" src="http://store.thirdmanrecords.com/images/products/display/loveinterruption_300.jpg" width="150"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17262491585</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17262491585</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:18:15 -0500</pubDate><category>jack white</category><category>music</category></item><item><title>frightening clowns and floating trumpets for those seeking the...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rxA48vKsHXg?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;frightening clowns and floating trumpets for those seeking the supernatural on a tuesday afternoon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tubrosmedia.com/post/17216351633/nicolasjaar" target="_blank"&gt;tubrosmedia&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nicolasjaar.net/" target="_blank"&gt;Nicolas Jaar&lt;/a&gt;, one of the least predictable and most experimental dance music producers of the late 2000s and early 2010s, was born in New York but spent much of his early childhood in Santiago de Chile — the birthplace of his father, Alfredo Jaar, an artist and filmmaker — until he moved back to New York before his teens.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In 2004, while under the spell of Ethiopian jazz and &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000427P?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randmusi01-20&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B00000427P&amp;ref_=sr_1_9&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1328637779&amp;sr=1-9" target="_blank"&gt;Erik Satie&lt;/a&gt;, Jaar began to feel his way through music production and made something of a breakthrough after his father bought him copies of Ricardo Villalobos’ &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00030EK1M?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randmusi01-20&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B00030EK1M&amp;ref_=sr_1_1&amp;qid=1328637323&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"&gt;Thé au Harem d’Archimède&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004ZUZ4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randmusi01-20&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B00004ZUZ4&amp;ref_=sr_1_1&amp;qid=1328637359&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank"&gt;Luomo’s Vocal City&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While incorporating his obsessions and recent discoveries into his music, he came into contact with &lt;a href="http://wolflambmusic.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Wolf + Lamb&lt;/a&gt;’s &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=randmusi01-20&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393193&amp;redirect=true&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=digital-music&amp;rd=1&amp;field-keywords=Gadi%20Mizrahi" target="_blank"&gt;Gadi Mizrahi&lt;/a&gt; and ended up making his debut for the label in 2008.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Titled The Student, the five-track digital release made it apparent that Jaar owed something to the roiling, elongated, percussion-heavy productions of Villalobos. Vinyl releases for Wolf + Lamb and Circus Company followed across 2009 and 2010.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The varied &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006XABJPG?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randmusi01-20&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B006XABJPG&amp;ref_=sr_1_1&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1328637503&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank"&gt;Space Is Only Noise&lt;/a&gt;, Jaar’s first album, was released on Circus in 2011.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;~ &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/artist/Nicolas_Jaar?feature=watch_metadata#" target="_blank"&gt;Andy Kellman, Rovi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005WNF4NI?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randmusi01-20&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B005WNF4NI&amp;ref_=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="150" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/616UVknCPyL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="150"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003FVCZ0O?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=randmusi01-20&amp;linkCode=shr&amp;camp=213733&amp;creative=393177&amp;creativeASIN=B003FVCZ0O&amp;ref_=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="150" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kIwB%2BRLGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="150"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17217156764</link><guid>http://www.mfritz18.com/post/17217156764</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:32:00 -0500</pubDate><category>nicolas jaar</category><category>music</category></item><item><title>"there are only three numbers in computer science: 0, 1, and n"</title><description>“there are only three numbers in computer science: 0, 1, and n” - robert johnson

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