¶ Matins: Mark Peters suggests a useful new word (over ten years old, actually, and born, like so many fashions, in the sporting world): “Nontroversy.” (Good)

¶ Lauds: Today, it’s the Video Game Music Club. Tomorrow, it will be an academic specialty at Berklee College of Music and elsewhere: Interactive Audio. (Boston Globe; via Arts Journal)

¶ Prime: Felix Salmon takes apart a wishy-washy column by Andrew Ross Sorkin in order to make a definitive case against financial institutions so large that they pose a systemic risk to the stability of financial markets — the TBTFs. Here is Mr Salmon’s reply to Mr Sorkin’s belief that huge corporations need huge banks.

¶ Tierce: Robin Sloan applies the economic terms, stock and flow, to activities that we might as well call “creative.” (Snarkmarket)

¶ Sext: Minneapolitan Lily Coyle thanks Pat Robertson for his thoughtful explanation of the earthquake in Haiti — in the voice of Satan. (StarTribune; via The Rumpus)

¶ Nones: Japan Airlines seeks bankruptcy protection. Not at all the same thing as going out of business! (BBC News)

¶ Vespers: Amy Halloran writes a nice appreciation of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s Scary Fairy Tales, at The Millions.

¶ Compline: Maria Popova addresses the importance of “data viz,” or what Edward Tufte calls The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Don’t miss the clip of Alex Lundry’s short talk on the subject — and steer clear of pie charts! (Brain Pickings)

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