Derek on FOG on the AIA. Again: Clay: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." Yes, yes and again yes.

Via Migurski, this paper takes a fresh look at the assumptions and structures underlying the capitalist economy. Stoked.

Via Berkman, an interesting comparison of municipal attitudes toward transit data. (Broadly: East Coast cities see such data as IP to be, urgh, monetized; West Coast cities perhaps unsurprisingly treat it more like a public good.) Will want to start authoring legislation mandating that such data be held in the public trust and made freely and universally available for the common good of all.

"Legal structures and group decision-making made easy." (!)

Read this *now*. Incredible reporting from Afghanistan's Korengal Valley: a US Army company is tasked with the unreasonable, verging on the obscenely irresponsible.

Exemplary outreach.