Newsletter 339
[1]Rule By Rentiers
Links:
1. http://b.rw/lBsZLG
Paul Krugman | NYT | 9 June 2011
"Policy makers are catering to the interests of rentiers – those who derive
lots of income from assets, who lent large sums of money in the past, often
unwisely, and are now being protected from losses at everyone else's
expense" [2]Comments
Links:
2. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rule-rentiers
[3]Andropov Was Right
Links:
3. http://b.rw/mwYFWt
Tariq Ali | LRB | 9 June 2011
About Afghanistan, that is. He didn't believe communism had a popular base
there, and he didn't want USSR to invade. But it got sucked in, and everyone
suffered. Fine review-essay pegged to Roderic Braithwaite's book, "Afgantsy"
[4]Comments
Links:
4. http://thebrowser.com/articles/andropov-was-right
[5]Seven Problems A Recovery Won't Fix
Links:
5. http://b.rw/iN28s1
Umair Haque | HBR | 8 June 2011
Why a "recovery" isn't the answer. "If more, bigger, faster, cheaper,
nastier got us where we are today, then more more, bigger, faster, cheaper,
nastier probably isn't going to be the rocket fuel of a quantum leap into
tomorrow" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/seven-problems-recovery-wont-fix
[7]Space, The Comfy Frontier
Links:
7. http://b.rw/ltH1r1
Chris Wright | Boston Globe | 5 June 2011
NASA planner predicts "large numbers of people traveling, living, and
working in space" by the end of this century. A challenge for architects.
"They will need potted plants, swimming pools, libraries, parks, and police
stations" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/space-comfy-frontier
[9]Four Takeaways From Apple's Keynote
Links:
9. http://b.rw/km6nFC
Mark Sigal | O'Reilly Radar | 8 June 2011
The story for the year ahead is Apple vs Amazon. Both sell stuff. Both are
disruptors. Both are crazy about customer satisfaction. Both have the
billing relationship. Both can execute on platform strategy. Both are
betting cloud [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/four-takeaways-apples-keynote
[11]End Of The Rodeo For The World's Greatest Cowboy
Links:
11. http://b.rw/iI6y9r
Mike Riggs | The Awl | 9 June 2011
Extraordinary story of Charlie Driver – ageing rodeo star, alcoholic,
murderer, loving husband. Prefers cremation to burial: “They put you in a
box, and you can’t go nowhere. I’ve been locked up before, and it ain’t
worth a shit” [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/end-rodeo-worlds-greatest-cowboy
FiveBooks Interview
[13]TC Boyle on Man and Nature
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tc-boyle-on-man-and-nature
The novelist and nature lover tells us about delicious dodos, angry tigers,
snakes on planes and why Viagra saves rhinos
Featured Topic
[14]Climate Change
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/topics/climate-change-0
Want to know how our planet is faring? Access the definitive reading list on
climate change, as recommended by Jonathan Porritt and others, and read
articles that will get you past the smoke and mirrors of Climategate
Reader Recommendations
[15]@nppolicyanalyst Must read >> Simon Johnson: The Banking Emperor Has No
Clothes - NYTimes.com - [16]goo.gl/wK4TV [17]#browsings via [18]@polit2k
[19]@yvessmith
Links:
15. http://twitter.com/nppolicyanalyst
16. http://goo.gl/wK4TV
17. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
18. http://twitter.com/polit2k
19. http://twitter.com/yvessmith
Book of the Day
[20]Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/ten-days-shook-world-by-john-reed
[21]Martin Sixsmith says: "He painted this fantastic, vivid picture of 1917.
As you know, Warren Beatty turned it into that movie Reds in the 1980s that
made revolution fun, sexy and exciting"
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/martin-sixsmith-on-why-russia-isn’t-democracy
Video of the Day
[22]Tabloid
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/videos/tabloid
Remember the Joyce McKinney affair? Beauty queen kidnaps "manacled Mormon"
for three-day romp? It's the subject of Errol Morris's latest film, and
here's the trailer
Quote of the Day
[23]Amy Davidson, on Anthony Weiner
Links:
23. http://kottke.org/11/06/risk-politics-and-texting-weiners
"Measuring risk is what politicians do for a living. That is why it is,
sad to say, a matter of legitimate interest that Weiner's wife was
pregnant when he sent those tweets. It widens our sense of just how
careless he is with the lives of others"