cognitive heat sink

If your eyes indulge in nothing more than my blog and one other item today let the other item be this article by Clay Shirky. http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge255.html#guardian

He stalks innovative thoughts, traps them with eloquent expression and moulds them into sentences like…

Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.

Clay Shirky, we salute you.