mentioned as a Nice Publication for March in Creative Review "the best in visual communication" here's IPad size selections. Drawn by Jack Forbes.

Lionel's explosive's train was pre-rigged to explode on hitting a section of track that jostled it. No firecracker required.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/

In the 1990's, a sharp thinking, Brooksley Born was on the shortlist for Attorney General, but Clinton thought she wasn't riveting enough so he instead offered her the head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. This obscure commission was the pulpit from which Born would issue a prediction that unregulated markets would eventually implode. Her logic, though basic, almost unassailable, brought her notoriety. As she decided derivatives needed oversight, eventually she would come up against Clinton's "working group," Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, and then in congressional hearings, Phil Gramm. Eventually she would resign, and the first warning of things to come, the collapse of Long Term Market Capital in 1998, would be swept under the rug as an anomaly.

"We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?"

http://econsultancy.com/blog/5423-paperchase-plagiarises-independent-artist-and-twitter-erupts

Since 1977, UT Austin has hosted The Maya Meetings, a four day annual workshop of epigraphic research, where teams and individual students and professors descend upon the Mesoamerican Center and pour over their year of research and offer papers and discussions of what decipherment has occurred. Of course the workshop has overlapped with the SXSW festival, allowing the participants to study the Maya by day and absorb the cutting edge of music film and recently interactive by night. This year, however, the meetings have been moved to Casa Herrera in Antigua, Guatemala, a sister facility of the Mesoamerican Center and will then alternate between there and Austin to ensure the linguistic distances between glyph and word are drawn closer together.

See you in Antigua!

It was Arthur Demarest who referred to the irregular shapes of Mayan polity borders in his and Conrad's seminal Ideology suggesting there was a function to their shape (it should be read). Here is another view of Maya polity relations, in the genre of Edward Tufte's books, from Nikolai Grube and Simon Martin's Chronicle of the Maya Kings. Here we have a simplified chart of major polities arrayed to provide the user with a view of how complex the Maya civilization's exchange was. Smaller and distant polities are necessarily omitted.