Newsletter 376
[5]How One Man Hacked His Way Into The Slot-Machine Industry
Links:
5. http://b.rw/o0Gixd
Brendan Koerner | Wired | 15 July 2011
Astonishing story of the inventive, illegal behaviour of Rodolfo Rodriguez
Cabrera. Mastermind of global counterfeit slot-machine business. His problem
was that he became too successful. Now in Texan prison, stateless
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-one-man-hacked-his-way-slot-machine-industry
[7]Inside Rebekah Brooks' News Of The World
Links:
7. http://b.rw/n23D02
Georgina Prodhan & Kate Holton | Reuters | 16 July 2011
"Journalists who worked there describe an industrialised operation of
dubious information-gathering, reporters under intense pressure attempting
to land exclusive stories by whatever means necessary, and a culture of
fear" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/inside-rebekah-brooks-news-world
[9]Mastering The Machine
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pLxhip
John Cassidy | New Yorker | 18 July 2011
Profile of Ray Dalio, head of Bridgewater Associates, world's strangest
hedge fund. Macro-economist, aspirational philosopher, radically transparent
manager. And hunter. Not only of profits but buffalo. Armed with bow and
arrow [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mastering-machine
[11]We're Spent
Links:
11. http://b.rw/pJlDQB
David Leonhardt | NYT | 16 July 2011
Futile to think that America's economy and jobs market will recover soon.
"We are living through a tremendous bust. It isn’t simply a housing bust.
It’s a fizzling of the great consumer bubble that was decades in the making"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/were-spent
[13]Michele Bachmann's Hazardous Love For Israel
Links:
13. http://b.rw/q8NZss
Jeffrey Goldberg | Bloomberg | 18 July 2011
"To much of the Christian right, Israel isn’t a real nation-state facing
painful choices. It is, instead, a biblical fantasyland, and an instrument
of Christian salvation." There are dangers in this, both for US policy and
Israel [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/michele-bachmanns-hazardous-love-israel
[15]The Cuban Grapevine
Links:
15. http://b.rw/p8ojC5
James Scudamore | Intelligent Life | 11 July 2011
Anecdote-rich despatch from Havana shows how Cuba is changing. Masses of
mobile phones now but price of texting means people send each other "missed
calls" instead. Still only 2% of Cubans online. Information is shared by USB
stick [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cuban-grapevine
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Randall Grahm on Wine
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/randall-grahm-on-wine
The Californian winemaker gives us a fabulously eclectic reading list for
understanding and enjoying the world of wine [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/randall-grahm-on-wine
Featured Topic
[19]Art
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/art
What are the most influential art books? Is cow dung art? How political was
Picasso? What's the correct etiquette for a gallery opening? All this
answered and more [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/art
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Paul Krugman | Murdoch Most Foul - NYTimes.com
- [22]goo.gl/P6c15 #[23]browsings [24]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://goo.gl/P6c15
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/hack’s-progress-by-phillip-knightley
[26]A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/hack’s-progress-by-phillip-knightley
[27]Nick Davies says: "Knightley is simply an amazing journalist. The book
has two different kinds of appeal – for a journalist, it’s full of technical
insight about what works but, for any reader, it’s just full of great tales"
[28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/nick-davies-on-investigative-journalism
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]Martin Bell: 'Journalism attracts ruthless people'
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/martin-bell-journalism-attracts-ruthless-people
"We're witnessing the end of the Murdocracy, 30 years of cutting corners for
profit"
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]James Wolcott, on Murdoch
Links:
31. http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2011/07/apart-from-the-lunatic-asylum-cry.html
"If the fall of the house of Murdoch is a tragedy, it's the feel-good
tragedy of the century"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations