I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. | | | | Al Pacino putting up with daylight at night in Insomnia.
(Warner Bros. Pictures) | | | | |  | “I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”
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| | rantnrave:// I'm on 24 hours with no sleep. Just landed in STOCKHOLM (SAS is a great airline). It's a beautiful city even when raining. Not a piece of garbage on the ground. And awesome that it's almost cashless. I don't really know what time or day it is. And it's going to be light out until late. Trying to get to sleep but feel like AL PACINO in INSOMNIA... Hate to bring up stats, but the West is out of its mind when it comes to terrorism deaths and revoking human rights to protect us. The UK now run by a WACHOWSKI villain... I will rant and rave tomorrow maybe but have a feeling that this COMEY thing will turn into GERALDO RIVERA's AL CAPONE vault ... FRANK DEFORD wasn't just a sportswriter -- he was THE sportswriter. His transcendent writing in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED — about BOBBY KNIGHT, HOWARD COSELL, BILLY CONN, and many more -- influenced generations of writers who use sports as a canvas to explore life... Gave you a few extra goodies below today to expand your mind, learn and ponder. Enjoy... Happy Birthday to CAROLINE SCHMIDT, QUINCY MCCOY, DAVID GILES, BEN AUSTIN, and MARC ACHE . | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Guardian |
| The long read: Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality -- ordering our shopping, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all -- but how can it? | | |
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 | CNET |
| Codebreakers' work played a key role in the Allied invasion on D-Day -- and created the world that’s led us to today’s encryption battles. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| The shoe brand No. One pairs tech savvy and a genuine commitment to craftsmanship to create sneakers that feel like art. | | |
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 | Sports Business Daily |
| According to a striking study of Nielsen television viewership data of 25 sports, all but one have seen the median age of their TV viewers increase during the past decade. | | |
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 | Indiewire |
| Does "Stranger Things" have it locked in? | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| As more of us flock to urban living, city designers are re-thinking buildings’ influence on our moods in an era of “neuro-architecture.” | | |
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 | Stratechery |
| Both Apple’s strengths and weaknesses were on full display at its annual WWDC keynote; the HomePod is a perfect example. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Global by nature, they are resisting nationalist policies that don't solve their big problems. | | |
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 | Aspen Ideas Festival |
| Thinking about the far-off future isn’t just an exercise in intellectual curiosity. It’s a practical skill that, as new research reveals, has a direct neurological link to greater creativity, empathy, and optimism. | | |
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 | Reason.com |
| From modernizing air-traffic control to expanding road capacity with private capital, the president's plan may really get America moving again. | | |
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 | Esquire |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| Steve Bartels discusses the culture at UMG, the role of a major in 2017 and why he's optimistic for the future | | |
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 | Backchannel |
| The former Microsoft CEO on publishing government information, owning the Clippers, and why he bought stock in Twitter. | | |
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 | Vice |
| Designer Syd Mead on the cult of "Blade Runner" and the Michael Jackson theme park that never came true. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| In December, I began a three-month break from Facebook and Twitter. | | |
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 | Creative Review |
| In the UK General Election, support for progressive politics is far more visible in the creative community than pro-Conservative messages are. Yet surveys reveal that not all creative people are left-leaning. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| They are influencing what students learn, and how teachers teach -- with millions of children serving as de facto beta testers for their ideas. | | |
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 | Factor |
| The kitchen of the future will be a connected, multi-functional space that is radically different to the separate room of old, according a report released by the Silestone Institute. | | |
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 | McKinsey & Company |
| Low-cost storage could transform the power landscape. The implications are profound. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Russiagate is like a mirage: from a distance it looks like something, but once you move in for a closer look, there’s nothing there. Nothing. Nothing solid, nothing substantial, nothing you can point at and say, “Here it is." | | |
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 | Village Voice |
| In the 19th century, New York’s first women’s clubs provided an essential safe haven. Now the city’s new women-centric gathering spots are looking to fuel a different kind of revolution. | | |
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 | Motherboard |
| I visited the garment factory workers who could lose their jobs to automation. But could robots also change their lives? | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Experts are either derided or held up as all-seeing gurus. Time to reboot the relationship between expertise and democracy. | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| Fifty years after the Six-Day War, the intellectualism that once lit up the Middle East has been all but extinguished by corrupt regimes and perverse religiosity. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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