Newsletter 352

23 Jun 2011 • 3 min read

[5]The Rise And Inglorious Fall Of Myspace
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ieHl6d

Felix Gillette | Businessweek | 22 June 2011

How Myspace snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. "There were things
that we knew would be more efficient for the user that we didn't act on
immediately because it would reduce page views." Big mistake. And not the
only one [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rise-and-inglorious-fall-myspace

[7]Michele Bachmann's Holy War
Links:
7. http://b.rw/jOCry5

Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone | 22 June 2011

Aspiring Republican gets the Taibbi treatment. "Bachmann is exactly the
right kind of completely batshit crazy. Not medically crazy, not
talking-to-herself-on-the-subway crazy, but grandiose crazy, late-stage Kim
Jong-Il crazy" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/michele-bachmanns-holy-war

[9]Jet-Skiing The Triangle Of Death
Links:
9. http://b.rw/krKFmw

Emma Sky | Foreign Policy | 21 June 2011

Former political adviser to Generals Petraeus and Odierno returns to Iraq as
a tourist (albeit a well connected one) to see how things have changed.
Pleasing mix of travelogue and political analysis. Scant grounds for hope
though [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jet-skiing-triangle-death

[11]We Stand On The Shoulders Of Cultural Giants
Links:
11. http://b.rw/lDdTM1

Razib Khan | Gene Expression | 21 June 2011

On evolution and the collective nature of human knowledge. Suggests that
story of human origins is "a little more complex and multi-layered that one
East African tribe of African Eve exploding outward from its ancestral
territory" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/we-stand-shoulders-cultural-giants

[13]Area 51: The Plane Truth
Links:
13. http://b.rw/jMIzHu

Angus Batey | Telegraph | 18 June 2011

Circling the secrets of US airbase. "I wish I’d never worked there. It's cut
20 years off my life. We could have been participating in genocide, for all
anybody knew. But when it came down to it, we were the ones being
exterminated" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/area-51-plane-truth

[15]Mr Keynes And The Moderns
Links:
15. http://b.rw/mltPf6

Paul Krugman | Vox | 21 June 2011

Lecture on why we should keep on reading Keynes. Even if he doesn't offer
any final answers, he corrected serious analytical errors that still crop up
in mainstream economics textbooks and political discourse almost a century
later [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mr-keynes-and-moderns

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Gretchen Rubin on How to Be Happier
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gretchen-rubin-on-how-be-happier

The author who gave us _The Happiness Project_ passes on tips for happier
living, with a little help from Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin and a nun
with humour on her mind [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gretchen-rubin-on-how-be-happier

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