Hi geeks. Music: hey, I had missed new Gonzo!

News:

• Kottke is on a streak of interesting links this week (I mean, even more than regular already super interesting 😄):
  • NYT: 25 works of art that define the contemporary age.
  • A demonstration of 16 levels of piano playing complexity, pretty cooool.
  • Rating vs ranking and the forced scarcity of American excellence.
• Tech:
  • Robin Sloan on the scale and feedback of social media platforms, 👍👍👍👍👍. Via waxy.
  • Passive neural net encoded in glass recognizing digits, whoa. Via jwz.