This might be cute if it was narrated by any other voice than the one they chose. Enjoy.

Brothers Grim and Grimy [YouTube]

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Some very random items of interest:

• Outsourcing to Arkansas.  This is all part of a larger trend:  the replacement of urbanized work (office, commute, expensive home, etc.) with telecommuting from a home located anywhere.  In other words, it will reverse migration from cities and decrease the need for a car.  The solution to finding a way to afford ever more expensive cars, 20% of top line income already (and climbing), isn't more fuel efficiency ala Rocky Mountain Institute -- it's finding a way to eliminate the need to own a car entirely. 
• CIA Red Cell research brief (wikileaks).   Seems to be "inside the box" thinking to me.  A red cell would be a lot less expensive if they just published revised versions of old GG posts.
• NPR.  Tea party as an open source insurgency.  The analysis uses the the term "starfish" to describe the organization rather than open source.  That term is from a good book called "The Starfish and Spider."  It's a nice compliment to "Brave New War" and a quick read (it's a light business book) to boot.
• Cambridge video from another John Robb.  He studies how we envision our bodies (machine, container of spirit, data, etc.).  Personally, I like the indistinct from nature viewpoint -- the first.  
• Discovery channel manifesto.  Lots of nuts.  
• New issue of Interesting Times, a cyber-apocalypse-punk swedish e-zine is out.
• Pint sized Thorium reactors.  Not going happen.
• Cook.  Some interesting analysis on P2P thinking (featuring the excellent P2P foundation and Global Guerrillas).
• More later (after some coffee).

Yes, it’s already time for a new edition of PauseTalk (Vol. 44), set to happen this coming Monday (September 6) at Cafe Pause, with the regular start time of 20:00 — as always, the cafe is reserved for the event from 19:30, so feel free to come early. Although the SNOW Magazine Cafe event ended this past Monday, I’ll bring out the participating magazines again for anyone who didn’t have a chance to browse through them.

Also, there was some sort of error when I created the Facebook event page, and so this is the correct one (if you receive a message about cancellation, that’s for the extra page it created).

editing/reformatting

My office, this morning, taken to run with this interview.

French-language edition of LOCAL, published by Delcourt, out this week.  I was too excited to wait for comps, so I ordered a copy from Amazon.fr

Bird Box presents one family’s day at the playground in a way that almost resembles a Rube Goldberg invention. At less than a minute long this short more than makes up for its brevity with a spectacular sense of timing.

via DRAWN!

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