DIN Is Noise

The high point of the Public Theater, I think, was in 1996, two years after I designed it, which was the Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk campaign that was all over New York.

Kaki King, the first female on Rolling Stone's guitar god list, rocks out to a full live set at TED2008, including her breakout single, Playing with Pink Noise. Jaw dropping virtuosity meets a guitar technique that truly stands out.

But the track record of charting this recovery has been discouraging. In his book The Signal and the Noise, the American statistician Nate Silver says that forecasters perform worst when faced with a circumstance that they have not encountered before.