Newsletter 380
[5]Google+ Is The Social Backbone
Links:
5. http://b.rw/n8JOqN
Edd Dumbill | O'Reilly Radar | 19 July 2011
Superb analysis. Openness and interoperability is potential game-changer.
And what Facebook can't offer. "Google+ is the rapidly growing seed of a
web-wide social backbone, and catalyst for the ultimate uniting of the
social graph" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/google-social-backbone
[7]Cyber Weapons, The New Arms Race
Links:
7. http://b.rw/rhhV8X
Michael Riley & Ashlee Vance | Businessweek | 20 July 2011
Fascinating on rise of cyber weapons that can attack moving cars, water
supplies, banking systems, even nuclear plants. As former CIA director
admits: “We are able to do things which we have not yet decided are wise to
do” [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/cyber-weapons-new-arms-race
[9]Great Bad Men As Bosses
Links:
9. http://b.rw/obPvnC
Schumpeter | Economist | 21 July 2011
"Many tycoons suffer from what Norwegians call _stormannsgalskap_, the
madness of great men. It's particularly common among media barons, not least
because they frequently blur the line between reporting reality and shaping
it" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-bad-men-bosses
[11]Two Kinds Of Magic
Links:
11. http://b.rw/osMncl
James Fenton | NYRB | 18 July 2011
A joy to see James Fenton returning to his earlier life as theatre critic.
And reflecting here on grand versus intimate theatre, as exemplified by
Cirque du Soleil's "Zarkana", and Peter Brooks's farewell production of
"Magic Flute" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/two-kinds-magic
[13]God Damn: The Economics Of Malediction
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nqHRjm
Peter Leeson | Peter Leeson | 18 July 2011
Academic paper, a touch tongue-in-cheek, on superstition among rational
actors. Without functioning government, medieval clerics used religious
curses to protect their property. Apparently, it worked pretty well. But
why? (PDF) [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/god-damn-economics-malediction
[15]Obituary: Lucian Freud
Links:
15. http://b.rw/ro8xf3
Anonymous | Telegraph | 21 July 2011
Grandson of Sigmund Freud. Expelled from school for bringing dogs into
chapel. At least 13 children by five mothers. "Portrait of a Benefits
Supervisor" fetched $33.6m in 2008, world record price for work by living
painter [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-lucian-freud
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Colin Thubron on Travel Writing
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-thubron-on-travel-writing
The much-travelled author reflects on more than 40 years of writing about
other cultures and shares his own favourite travel reading with us [18]Read
on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-thubron-on-travel-writing
Featured Topic
[19]Financial Crisis
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis
In-depth primer for both the expert and the amateur. Experts interviewed
include Eichengreen, Barro and Rodrik. Wide range of hand-picked background
articles [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis
Reader Recommendations
_@bennyfactor_ RT _@prospect_uk_: Smug, self-congratulatory, intellectually
lazy: does Jon Stewart symbolise the failings of the American left?
[21]t.co/jInGGSo [22]#browsings [23]More like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/jInGGSo
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/three-trapped-tigers-by-guillermo-cabrera-infante
[25]Three Trapped Tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/three-trapped-tigers-by-guillermo-cabrera-infante
[26]Oscar Hijuelos says: “Few other writers can approach Infante in his
verbal intensity and sense of rhythm – his language transports you to
Cuba” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oscar-hijuelos-on-cuba
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Al Franken In Action
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/al-franken-action
As Laurie Voss says, "Al Franken is pretty good at this senator thing"
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Horace Dediu, on trial and error
Links:
30. http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/20/how-did-i-get-the-iphone-number-so-wrong
"If you stick with the theory and ask where it went wrong, you will build
a better theory"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations