Motus Mentis

I’ve been working long hours this week, and haven’t had the time — nor sufficient sleep — to write anything worth reading. Meanwhile, the links have been piling up, as they tend to do. So it’s time once again to flush, as we programmers say, the cache:

— Another reason that I hope humans never lose their fondness for creating beautiful, useless things.

— Homage to Vermeer.

— From Ben Franklin, a handy compendium.

— Goats.

— Going, going…

— Paging Mr. Fort.

— We’ve been neglecting this topic. More later.

— U.S. cities over time, in a lovely chart.

— Income mobility.

— Behind the mask.

— Nice UI. (It was recommended for use with the GSS, as I recall.)

— Safe house. See also here.

— The Hole at the Pole.

— Steve Sailer’s Race FAQ.

— A very strange ping-pong match.

— Hitchens and Buckley, long, long ago.