A really easy website for sharing files, notes, anything. No signup required, you just send your post as email to post@posterous.com (with attachments if you like), and they take care of the rest. Simple, beautiful - a model design.

Disclaimer: I know Garry, one of the founders, from college.

Quoted: posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us.

How industrialists created the consumer culture to keep people occupied. Baa.

It's encouraging to know that there's plenty of room for improvement. Our world is a product of dirty historical conditions, from apes through tyrants to masterminds. We can clean them up to make a better world possible.

Quoted: The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket.

Schools are evil, here's why.

Quoted: Teaching means many different things, but six lessons are common to schoolteaching from Harlem to Hollywood. You pay for these lessons in more ways than you can imagine, so you might as well know what they are

An interesting perspective on recent history: industrialization created free time (unused mental capacity or "cognitive surplus"), TV filled it at first but now we are finding more constructive ways to apply it.

Quoted: I started telling [a TV producer] about the Wikipedia article on Pluto...She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."