The unitary executive theory is a theory of United States constitutional law which holds that the (US President) possesses the power to control the entire executive branch. The doctrine is rooted in Article Two of the US Constitution, which vests "the executive power" of the United States in the President. Although that general principle is widely accepted, there is disagreement about the strength and scope of the doctrine.[1] It can be said that some favor a "strongly unitary" executive, while others favor a "weakly unitary" executive. The former group argue, for example, that US Congress's power to interfere with intra-executive decision-making (such as firing executive branch officials) is limited, and that the President can control policy-making by all executive agencies within the limits set for those agencies by Congress. Still others agree that the Constitution requires a unitary executive, but believe this to be harmful, and propose its abolition by constitutional amendment.[2] Plural executives exist in several states where, in contrast to the federal government, executive officers such as lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller, secretary of state, and others, are elected independently of the state's governor. The Executive Branch of the Texan state government is a textbook example of this type of executive structure. Another type of plural executive, used in Japan, Israel, and Sweden, though not in any US state, is one in which a collegial body composes the executive branch – however, that collegial body does not comprise multiple members elected in elections, but is rather more akin to the US Cabinet or UK Cabinet in formation and structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory (more)

Rusty Guinn: A Tale of Two Cults. The cult of Uri Geller should have died on August 1st, 1973. (more)

His Writing Radicalized Young Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them. Set the first and last books in Cory Doctorow’s epic, three-book Little Brother cypherpunk saga side by side, and they read a bit like a creative writing master class on telling two starkly opposite stories from the same prompt. The common premise: Islamist terrorists bomb the Bay Bridge. Thousands die. The Department of Homeland responds by turning San Francisco into a fascist, total-surveillance police state (more)

Sascha Fast: Backlinking (Backlinks) Is Not Very Useful -- Often Even Harmful. To me, there is a lot of emphasis on connecting notes and very little on connecting knowledge. My response to the below: (more)

Jared Pereira: 45: Documents and Programs. In this application, though, you’re not only interacting with text documents, there are also programs. These are special documents that are are dynamic. They change based on some internal state. You can modify that state by sending the document messages. (more)

author of Innovators Dilemma and Innovators Solution ISBN:1578518520 (more)

Zettelkasten junkie - https://zettelkasten.de/

Kev Quirk: Removing Support For The IndieWeb. I recently redesigned this website. When I did, I removed all of the IndieWeb functionality from it. (more)

Future liability owed on a Product/Project because of short-term-focused Decision Making. Or changing reality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt (more)

series of books by Walter Jon Williams - (more)

Body of thought on how-to-think. But heavily focused on business activities. By Eli Goldratt. (more)

Clarke Ching: Lesson One - Winston Churchill. Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty (in 1911) and instructed to prepare the navy to win a war against Germany. (more)

Who killed Roland Barthes? Maybe Umberto Eco has a clue. On Feb. 25, 1980 the celebrated French literary critic Roland Barthes was struck by a laundry van while crossing the street in Paris, later dying of his injuries... What if Barthes — an authority on semiology, the study of signs and symbols — had discovered a linguistic secret of immense power, one for which people would kill? The pioneering structuralist Roman Jakobson had famously promulgated six functions to language, but he hinted at the possible existence of a seventh, one in which words acquired the persuasive force of incantations or magic spells (magick). (more)

Works Progress Administration, renamed during 1939 as the Work Projects Administration (more)

David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white supremacist, far-right politician, convicted felon, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He has advocated neo-Nazi and antisemitic conspiracy theories such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia, the press, and the financial system.[3][4] The Anti-Defamation League has described Duke as "perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite" who promotes white supremacist opinions.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke

Hillary Clinton: Half of Donald Trump Supporters Fall Into ‘Basket of Deplorables’ (more)

aka Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator : Using concentrated Solar Power to reverse combustion, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power. The carbon monoxide could then be used to make hydrogen or serve as a building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel, such as methanol or even gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/sunshine.html (more)

Swarm behaviour, or swarming, is a collective behaviour exhibited by animals of similar size which aggregate together, perhaps milling about the same spot or perhaps moving en masse or migrating in some direction. As a term, swarming is applied particularly to insects, but can also be applied to any other animal that exhibits swarm behaviour. The term Flocking is usually used to refer specifically to swarm behaviour in birds, Herd Ing to refer to swarm behaviour in quadrupeds, shoaling or Schooling to refer to swarm behaviour in fish. Phytoplankton also gather in huge swarms called blooms, although these organisms are algae and are not self-propelled the way animals are. By extension, the term swarm is applied also to inanimate entities which exhibit parallel behaviours, as in a robot swarm, an earthquake swarm, or a swarm of stars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour (more)

a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic plants, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length. The US Algal Collection is represented by almost 300,000 accessioned and inventoried herbarium specimens.[3] The largest and most complex marine forms are called Sea Weed-s. They are photosynthetic, like other plants, and "simple" because they lack the many distinct organs found in land plants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae (more)

Reforestation (occasionally, Reafforestation) is the natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands (forestation) that have been depleted, usually through deforestation.[1] Reforestation can be used to rectify the effects of deforestation or improve the quality of human life by soaking up pollution and dust from the air, rebuilding natural habitats and ecosystems, mitigating global warming since forests facilitate biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide,[2] and harvesting for resources, particularly timber, but also non-timber forest products. In the beginning of the 21st century more attention is given to the ability of reforestation to mitigate climate change as one of the best methods to do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforestation