New Luke Vibert

Luke Vibert is LSD. My brain is consistently tickled in just such a way by his loopy funk sense and in your face programming technique. I don't think I know any other musical artist whose work has been so consistently mind-bendingly pleasant to listen to. I don't think its for everybody, but it's definitely for me. He has a new record out. Everything above applies.

Walk it Out.

WALK IT OUT FOSSE

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On Political Leadership

Four years into the Iraq war, I am often tempted to look back and think "I told you so." But what do those who supported the war think? I've heard the blame placed on faulty evidence a million times, but for our president, faulty evidence doesn't equate to incorrect decision. In the Times yesterday, former Harvard prof and current member of Canadian Parliament Michael Ignatieff waxes philosophical on why he and so many others were wrong about Iraq, and how to react to that realization. His essay came across to me as intellectually sincere and deeply compelling.

From the Times:

Good judgment in politics, it turns out, depends on being a critical judge of yourself. It was not merely that the president did not take the care to understand Iraq. He also did not take the care to understand himself. The sense of reality that might have saved him from catastrophe would have taken the form of some warning bell sounding inside, alerting him that he did not know what he was doing. But then, it is doubtful that warning bells had ever sounded in him before. He had led a charmed life, and in charmed lives warning bells do not sound.

People with good judgment listen to warning bells within. Prudent leaders force themselves to listen equally to advocates and opponents of the course of action they are thinking of pursuing. They do not suppose that their own good intentions will guarantee good results. They do not suppose they know all they need to know. If power corrupts, it corrupts this sixth sense of personal limitation on which prudence relies.

Public Creativity

Wow. I try to resist reposting topics I see on BoingBoing, but this video is just too neat. It's a video that is made up of flickr images freshly selected with each viewing based on tags matching the lyrics. That means that each viewing is different, and that there is a very sexy element of randomness involved. The song's not half bad either!

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