Newsletter 191

[1]How To Build A Backyard Ice Rink
Links:
1. http://b.rw/fCjmUE

Larry Webster | Popular Mechanics | 27 December 2010

You are going to need 175 linear feet of lumber, 25 metal stakes and a 50 x
100-foot plastic liner. Plus a large, flat piece of ground, a gradient
measuring device, hot chocolate, donuts, and help from half the
neighbourhood

[2]Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours
Links:
2. http://b.rw/hLxxBc

David Barstow et al | NYT | 25 December 2010

Epic investigation of BP rig blowout. Crew training inadequate. Systems too
complex. "Every one of the Horizon’s defences failed. Some were deployed but
did not work. Some were activated too late. Some were never deployed at
all".

[3]Sweet Revolution
Links:
3. http://b.rw/gc03bw

Adam Gopnik | New Yorker | 27 December 2010

On the science and architecture of the modern pudding. But mainly an excuse
for going to see what Ferran and Albert Adria have been up to lately in El
Bulli. And to meet their neighbour, the "young Mozart of pastry", Jordi Roca

[4]If The FCC Had Regulated The Internet
Links:
4. http://b.rw/eJOKoy

Jack Shafer | Slate | 23 December 2010

Counterfactual history. Delightful, ingenious. "We can't have the online
industry pushing out beta software on customers willy-nilly. Such software
could interfere with other users' computers, or crash the whole online
world"
[5]View full selection
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/best

Today's FiveBooks Interview

[6]M C Beaton on =COSY MYSTERIES=
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/m-c-beaton-on-cosy-mysteries

North Scotland is wonderful countryside, a marvellous setting for a murder.
The wind just screams from horizon to horizon – it’s like living in a
speeded-up nature film. You open up the kitchen door and catch a passing
sheep… [7]Continue reading…
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/m-c-beaton-on-cosy-mysteries

Topic

[8]Relationships
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/topics/relationships

Everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask), includes
interviews with psychology and relationship experts from Mira Kirshenbaum to
Kate Figes and articles that cover the myriad of human complexities
[9]Continue reading…
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/relationships

Book of the Day

[10]Scoop
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/scoop-by-evelyn-waugh

-by Evelyn Waugh -

I think it is the best description of a foreign correspondent’s career, and
I doubt it will ever be bettered. It’s still very relevant to this rather
ridiculous life. When I was covering the early days of the Congo, a group of
us were there, maybe five or six correspondents, and somebody had a battered
copy of Scoop that we passed around. It just read straight – the life we
were living was hardly exaggerated.

[11]More recommendations…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks

Browsings

[12]polit2k P2P Banking cuts out the middleman | Bankers' bonuses: don't get
mad – get even – Telegraph Blogs [13]t.co/UX9slfp
[14]
More user recommended #browsings…
Links:
12. http://twitter.com/polit2k
13. http://t.co/UX9slfp
14. http://thebrowser.com/browsings

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