The Decline of War.

We are experiencing one of the least discussed, yet most remarkable cultural shifts of all time: war, one of our species’ most abiding and defining social practices, is at its lowest ebb ever.

Looking forward to De La Soul’s new album.

Drawn ft. Little Dragon.

The wonderful Kerry Bishé about her role in “Halt and Catch Fire” which revolves around two women running a gaming company in the 1980s.

Never a Hippie, Always a Freak.

When Zappa shows up in a suit and tie debating Robert Novak on Crossfire, the effect is less the ’60s freak who became a normal adult than an uncompromising individual voice channeled into a different format.

Why the Arabs Don’t Want U.S. in Syria.

Relevant: Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart.

Hours are going by when I play around with André Michelle’s Pulsate toy…

Good bye Flash! Thanks for 10 years of tinkering, fiddling, bothering and lots of fun. For sentimental purpose you can watch some of my old Flash experiments here.

Obsolesced.

The rise and fall of the Gopher protocol (via reddit.com).

“Twenty-five years ago, a small band of programmers from the University of Minnesota ruled the internet. And then they didn’t.”

The lost infrastructure of social media.

More than a decade ago, the earliest era of blogging provided a set of separate but related technologies that helped the nascent form thrive. Today, most have faded away and been forgotten, but new incarnations of these features could still be valuable.

Nigerian disco – 10 of the best.

This week’s 10 of the best focuses on our Tony Allen-inspired Gateways series, in collaboration with Boiler Room, to look at when disco took over west Africa.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin got assassinated.