Sharing = creativity

A structural look at innovation. Hat tip to Nicole R.

Aaron Draplin designs a logo in fifteen minutes.

Aaron Draplin Takes On a Logo Design Challenge from lynda.com on Vimeo.

Hat tip to Joseph R.

Recent Reading, Screwed up animal husbandry edition

Imagine it was your job to Frankenstein animals? A horror story about breeding animals that sounds like science fiction except it's done with your tax dollars.

"If, thanks to an experimental inspection program, a meatpacking firm produces as much as two tons a day of pork contaminated by fecal matter, urine, bile, hair, intestinal contents or diseased tissue, should that count as a success?" The kind of problems you get when you let the meat industry regulate itself.

Foie gras is for assholes. Mark Bittman makes the totally valid point that any furor about lifting the California foie gras ban is totally misplaced. Foie gras from force fed ducks is small potatoes. It's the rest of our animal husbandry sytem in America that's cruel, and it's on an epic scale.