Newsletter 262

22 Mar 2011 • 2 min read

[1]Fear And Loathing At 40
Links:
1. http://b.rw/ex3La5

Michael Bourne | Millions | 21 March 2011

Forty years ago Hunter S. Thompson drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas with
an attorney named Oscar Zeta Acosta. His account of the trip was a cult
classic. Still funny to read now—but much sadder, a death-knell to the 1960s

[2]Meriado
Links:
2. http://b.rw/icoSNe

Alli | Killing The Buddha | 21 March 2011

Diary of a jungle retreat with Peruvian shaman. Much drinking of ayahuasca
infusions. Hallucinations, voices, out-of-body experiences. Visions of God.
"I sighed and smiled a lot and then I realized I was in a womb and was a
baby"

[3]That Was Quick
Links:
3. http://b.rw/i83KPZ

Joshua Benton | Nieman Journalism Lab | 21 March 2011

The NYT paywall took eighteen months to build at a reported cost of $50
million. But it only took four lines of code to hack. New bookmarklet NYT
Clean offers free unrestricted access. Dear old Grey Lady, this doesn't bode
well

[4]14 Non-Obvious Points From Economics
Links:
4. http://b.rw/fsGdRr

Karl Smith | Modelled Behaviour | 21 March 2011

Just what the title says. A rag-bag of counter-intuitive yet seemingly
reliable propositions, each of them worth a few moments' thought. Try this
one: "The expansion of heavy industry will cause wages for service workers
to rise"

[5]Japan After The Earthquake
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ggiqnE

Evan Osnos | New Yorker | 21 March 2011

Account of Japan's response to the disaster. "Almost complete sense of
national cooperation and purpose. Little observable looting or undue panic,
and almost no acts of political exploitation." But government weakness clear
to all

[6]An Open Letter To The Hipster
Links:
6. http://b.rw/hCxccj

Will Davies | Potlatch | 21 March 2011

"Your imaginations are fuelled by images of urban abandonment, and all of
the entrepreneurial-cultural opportunities that went with it. You fantasise
about the cheap rents, disused warehouses, vacated city centres of the late
1970s"

Today's FiveBooks Interview

[7]Robert Conquest on =COMMUNISM=
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-conquest-on-communism

Esteemed historian of the Soviet Union recommends five books on Communism,
from novels and personal narratives to theoretical works [8]Continue
reading…
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-conquest-on-communism

Topic

[9]Israel Palestine
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/israel-palestine-0

Browse interviews with Arab-Israeli specialists from Stephen Walt to Michael
Goldfarb, and read selection of articles and lectures that our specialists
have chosen to give an in-depth understanding of the conflict
[10]Continue reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/topics/israel-palestine-0

Book of the Day

[11]The Tao of Cricket
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tao-cricket-by-ashis-nandy

-by Ashis Nandy -

[12]Dr Debanjan Chakrabarti says: "Ashis Nandy is one of India’s most
charismatic and in some ways controversial public intellectuals."
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dr-debanjan-chakrabarti-on-sportsmanship-and-cheating

[13]More recommendations…
Links:
13. http://thebtrowser.com/fivebooks

Browsings

@
[14]tweetingmanatee
Links:
14. http://twitter.com/tweetingmanatee

Matt Fikse @[15]Crosscut writes to Sulzberger re: #[16]NYT paywall. Pricing
is dumb, it should be more like iTunes #[17]browsings [18]b.rw/fw9kk2
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/Crosscut
16. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#NYT
17. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
18. http://b.rw/fw9kk2

[19]More user recommended #browsings…
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/browsings

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