Straight White Male is the Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is: byJohn Scalzi
http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/
Explorable Explanations by Bret Victor
http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/
Designing For and Against the Manufactured Normalcy Field, by Greg Borenstein
http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/06/24/designing-for-and-against-the-manufactured-normalcy-field/
Innovation under Austerity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2VHf5vpBy8
A Small World After All
http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/article.cfm?AID=2153
The Ecstasy of Influence, A Plagiarism
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387
The New Paradigm for Education by Sir Ken Robinson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
The Element by Sir Ken Robinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TAqSBMZDY8
Recovery from Early Blindness, RL Gregory
(will post PDF to blog)
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
Funes the Memorious, by Juan Luis Borges (in Labyrinths)
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, by Juan Luis Borges (in Labyrinths)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm