Newsletter 409

[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

[5]Top Ten Myths About The Libya War
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nhgU5a

Juan Cole | Informed Comment | 22 August 2011

With the Gaddafi regime on the way out and an uncertain future looming, it's
worth taking a moment to review the Libya conflict. Good backgrounder that
sets some arguments, mistaken analyses of past few months to rest
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/top-ten-myths-about-libya-war

[7]Partners
Links:
7. http://b.rw/pwwrsF

Jeffrey Toobin | New Yorker | 22 August 2011

Is it really 20 years since Clarence Thomas won his tumultuous battle to
become a US Supreme Court justice? This long, informative assessment calls
him probably the most conservative justice to serve on the court since the
1930s [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/partners

[9]'Rioting Has Been A London Tradition For Centuries'
Links:
9. http://b.rw/njwHRP

Peter Ackroyd | Independent | 22 August 2011

Chronicler of London suggests William Blake would have joined in riots. TS
Eliot would have downed another drink in horror. Thomas More would have
tried to keep the peace. Dickens would have written an epic [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rioting-has-been-london-tradition-centuries

[11]Tim Berners-Lee
Links:
11. http://b.rw/oaULE2

John Naish | New Statesman | 15 August 2011

Enjoyable profile of the man who built the Internet. Unshakeable in his
belief that web must remain open and available to all. “I wanted to build a
creative space, something like a sandpit where everyone could play together"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/tim-berners-lee

[13]Swamp Dreams
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nU1TVk

Robert Sullivan | New York | 21 August 2011

On plans to turn mosquito-infested wasteland in New Jersey, filled with
botched building schemes, into world's largest shopping and entertainment
centre. "I don’t know which is worse—if it fails or if it succeeds," says
one critic [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/swamp-dreams

[15]In Father's Memory, Fighting To Stay In Britain
Links:
15. http://b.rw/oU2tXk

Nina Bernstein | NYT | 20 August 2011

"Like a cross between Charles Dickens and Zadie Smith" says Felix Salmon, of
this glimpse into Britain's broken asylum system. Miserable tale of teenage
Angolan orphan facing prison and deportation after making new life in UK
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/fathers-memory-fighting-stay-britain

FiveBooks Interview

[17]Arabella Lennox-Boyd on Garden Design
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/arabella-lennox-boyd-on-garden-design

The award-winning garden designer recommends essential books for any budding
gardener, and reveals why trees are the backbone of any good garden [18]Read
on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/arabella-lennox-boyd-on-garden-design