This Day in Blogging History: Children of Mao's cronies are billionaires; Throbbing Gristle's Gristleizer; Powering virtuous circles

One year ago today

China's Princelings: descendants of Mao's generals who control the country's wealth: Wealth in China is even more concentrated than Russia, Brazil or the USA, and the Chinese looter-class use complex screens that take advantage of different ways of representing their names in English, Cantonese and Mandarin to obscure the ownership of former state assets.

Five years ago today

Throbbing Gristle's Gristleizer audio effects unit: The custom audio effects unit that helped define the industrial sound of Throbbing Gristle (TG) in the late 1970s.

Ten years ago today
Kevin Kelly: Powering Virtuous Circles: Think of it as enabling philanthropy: take a minimum of money and aim it at the precise point where it can do the maximum good, multiplied by many generations.