Culural Webs...a start

Something that I have found fascinating in general, is the basic concepts behind a functional capitalistic society, more specifically the idea of 'spontaneous order'. A recent blog post on mises.org(an austrian economics organization) discusses how the founder of wikipedia has tried to apply this concept to the worlds knowledge, that the wants and needs of many individuals will provide a broad overarching order.

Another thread that has recently pulled at my imagination, is the artist Brian Eno. I have begun listening to some of his Ambient work, but what I find most interesting is his work on the windows 95 startup music. His description of it is pretty amazing:
(from wikipedia)

The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem – solve it." The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3¼ seconds long." I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel. In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.