Newsletter 391

[5]Enter The Cyber-Dragon
Links:
5. http://b.rw/piDo4Z

Michael Joseph Gross | Vanity Fair | 3 August 2011

Huge feature investigating a decade of cyber attacks against Lockheed
Martin, Google, RSA and others. China top suspect. “There are only two types
of companies—those that know they’ve been compromised, and those that don’t
know" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/enter-cyber-dragon

[7]Deceptive Picture
Links:
7. http://b.rw/ofV7ur

Alex Ross | New Yorker | 2 August 2011

Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray had an inauspicious launch. One review described
it as appealing to “outlawed noblemen and perverted telegraph-boys”.
Beautifully crafted essay looks at Wilde, his writing and re-writing of this
classic [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/deceptive-picture

[9]The Debt Ceiling Deal
Links:
9. http://b.rw/nGJf7t

Brendan Greeley | Businessweek | 3 August 2011

Washington's deal over the debt ceiling appears to have satisfied nobody.
But could the tense, protracted negotiations ever have turned out
differently? Game theory suggests not. There are set rules for playing
"chicken" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/debt-ceiling-deal

[11]Minter’s Ring
Links:
11. http://b.rw/ovl4kg

Gilbert King | Past Imperfect | 2 August 2011

Mystery tale from WWII. American naval officer Minter Dial died in the
Philippines in 1944, a captive of the Japanese. So why was his signet-ring
found in Korea 20 years later? Fine stuff from the Smithsonian's new history
blog [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/minter’s-ring

[13]Countdown To Tragedy
Links:
13. http://b.rw/oysEVZ

Brad Wieners | Sports Illustrated | 18 July 2011

Terrifying story of mountain climbers caught in vicious electrical storm in
Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. "I was thinking, _They're falling_, but
not realising I was falling too." Thanks Michael Pace for alerting us
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/countdown-tragedy

[15]The Bell Jar At 40
Links:
15. http://b.rw/oFHg9F

Emily Gould | Poetry Foundation | 28 July 2011

Admiring, nicely balanced appreciation of suicidal poet. "Sylvia Plath
wanted to be a good mother. But that part of her was always fighting with
being a very selfish person who wanted to devote time and resources to her
work" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bell-jar-40

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Dominic Lawson on Chess
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dominic-lawson-on-chess

You don’t have to be a genius to play chess, but it helps. The journalist
tells us about the logical beauty of the game, its history and political
context, and the lives and minds of its greatest masters [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dominic-lawson-on-chess