Wired Cola

This is an old paper. By the copyright, it's approaching a decade in print. It has been widely referenced. The pretty, as-published 3MB PDF, which includes some revisions and extra graphs.

And it may be the most important thing, at least in terms of personal transformation, that you ever read.

Item: a guy who manages content for a living writes something like this. And he pretty much has to, since to say otherwise and be even half as techno-savvy as he is (and that poor slob doesn't even have an N93) would be to be regarded as having been bought, or retarded, or both.

Things of note:

Here is a brief list of things that have broken in the last seven days or so:

• the car's water pump
• my laptop's hinge
• my laptop's screen
• the robot vacuum
• my lip (4 stitches!)
• the shower cleaner (long story)
• the dishwasher
  

South America's favourite reality-TV show, the government of Venezuela, has granted President Hugo Chavez the power to enact laws by decree.

I don't post about politics [or anything else -Ed.] very often here. But some bright lines deserve to be noted.

I can do no better than the prescient Mr. Cosh, who posted this just over a year ago: