Links for Later 2-13-16

1. Quaker bankers: building trust on the basis of sincerity, reciprocity and charity
2. Henrik Kneiberg explains his iterative car diagram.Not MVP, but Earliest Testable/Usable/Lovable
3. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died today.

Paul Laffoley has Merged with the Infinite

Paul Laffoley, one of our favorite artists here at Bottlerocketscience, has died today. He will be sorely missed.

From Kent Fine Art's email:

NEW YORK PAUL LAFFOLEY (b. Cambridge, August 14, 1935 - d. Boston, November 16, 2015) The visionary artist and luminary, Paul Laffoley, has died today after a long battle with congestive heart failure. He had an extraordinary grasp of multiple fields of knowledge compulsively pursing interests that often lead him into uncharted territory. His complex theoretical constructs were uniquely presented in highly detailed mandala-like canvases largely scaled to Fibonacci's golden ratio. While an active participant in numerous speculative organizations including his own Boston Visionary Cell since the early 70s, his work began to attract an increasing following in his late career with shows at the Palais de Tokyo (2009), Hamburger Bahnhoff (2011), Hayward Gallery, London, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2013). The first book on Laffoley's oeuvre was The Phenomenology of Revelation published by Kent Fine Art in 1989, followed by several subsequent publications beginning with his first retrospective organized by the Austin Museum of Art (1999). Forthcoming in March of 2016, the University of Chicago Press will be releasing the long awaited book entitled The Essential Paul Laffoley. He was a kind and generous giant, and he will be sorely missed by all of us. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be . . . Henry David Thoreau CLICK VIMEO TO SEE PAUL LAFFOLEY ON VISIONARY ART 210 ELEVENTH AVENUE (between 24th and 25th Streets) 2ND FLOOR NEW YORK, NY 10001 212-365-9500 WWW.KENTFINEART.NET For all further inquiries contact Douglas Walla at dkw@kentfineart.net

James Salter 1925-2015

Seth Roberts

Seth Roberts, psychologist and self-experimentation pioneer, died this week while hiking. Andrew Gellman has a good remembrance here. Nassim Taleb is organizing a scientific memorial this summer.

Richie Havens - Freedom

RIP Shannon Larratt

This morning, Shannon Larratt, founder of BME.com, body modifier and longtime internet personality, posted posthumously to his website. It appears that he's passed away following a long and extremely painful illness. He was a unique character and will be sorely missed by many.

RIP Aaron Swartz

Internet Activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz committed suicide this morning in his New York apartment. Appreciations of his life by Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig.

RIP Neil Armstrong

Links for Later 7-16-12

1. Tattoos by Xoil
2. Joss Whedon interviewed at ComiCon
3. Donald Sobol, who wrote Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, died today
4. More on the Ingeborg Bachman prize

Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld

His wife told them, "Don't try to lock him up. He escapes, you know."

Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld passed away at 88 this week, leaving behind a possible winning entry for best obituary ever. If you never fought in the French Resistance, don't even try to compete. Just read the whole thing.

So Long, Wild Thing

Maurice Sendak has gone to the wild rumpus in the sky. He was 83.

Links for Later 4-18-12

1. The disused platforms at the Wilson L Station explained
2. Twitter's latest idea: the Innovator's Patent Agreement
3. Thomas Friedman, Duncan Black's choice for Wanker of the Decade
4. If you complain loudly enough about military intelligence, they will put you in charge
5. The Tools Book trailer
6. CISPA=SOPA II
7. Death by swan
8. Tiger parents of Rome

Travel On, Aunt Sere

We miss you already, and always will.

Links for Later 12-21-11

1. The Power of Living in Truth: a Vaclav Havel appreciation
2. Mark Thoma: The Economic Divide Makes Everyone Poorer
3. Adam Savage on SOPA/PIPA
4. Al Jazeera on Bradley Manning
5. How hard does James Franco work at Yale?
6. Neal Pollack knew Christopher Hitchens better than you
7. More on the Egyptian library fire
8. Yet more

Links for Later 12-16-11

1. A sampling of Japanese kamon (family crests)
2. A selection of Christopher Hitchens articles and talks from The Browser
3. Slate's collection of Hitchens articles
4. Hitchens' Mark Daily memorial article
5. A short Kelly Link interview
6. SOPA markup delayed indefinitely
7. SOPA only supported by astroturfers and industry flacks?
8. Bradley Manning pre-trial hearing begins
9. Gingrich proposes abolishing Article III of Constitution to save America from having judges

RIP Christopher Hitchens

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Quote of the Day

Oh, Wow. Oh, Wow. Oh, Wow.

-Steve Jobs' last words

"A Sister's Eulogy"

RIP Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs passed away today.

Links for Later

1. Paul Krugman on the post-9/11 shame
2. Gym Jones, where the 300 actors went to train
3. Frank Netter
4. Agent trys to de-gay YA lit
5. Andy Whitfield (Spartacus) dies at 39 of lymphoma
6. Fr. Mychal Judge a remembrance
7. Economics doubles match: Barro/Cowen vs. Krugman/DeLong

Links for Later

1. Felix Salmon on NPR's This American Life on Intellectual Ventures patent troll strategy
2. New publishing business models
3. A Keynesian question
4. Defeatist nonsense about liberals and Obama
5. How large is your vocabulary?
6. Dumbledore's strategy beat Voldemort's
7. Debt ceiling scenarios
8. Jameson Lindeskog's obituary. Note the ending.
9. Elizabeth Drew on the debt ceiling
10. Robert Pattinson's Cosmopolis haircut
11. Walter Pater, Giordano Bruno
12. GE Lessing, Laocoon