Newsletter 416
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Totally Psyched For The Full-Rip Nine
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pYaSmL
Bruce Barcott | Outside | 25 August 2011
What happens when "the big one" hits north-west coast of North America. That
is, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake plus tsunami. Ground under Seattle and
Portland liquefies. You have 15 minutes to get above 50 feet of elevation
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/totally-psyched-full-rip-nine
[7]How To Turn A Continent Into A Subprime CDO
Links:
7. http://b.rw/oV5aip
Mark Blyth | Triple Crisis | 25 August 2011
"Eurozone resembles a 2008 vintage subprime CDO. The Greek, Irish and
Portuguese periphery is riskiest junior tranche, the Italians and Spanish
are the mezzanine tranche, France and Germany form the senior tranche." Will
it implode? [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-turn-continent-subprime-cdo
[9]Jon Huntsman, The No-Drama Conservative
Links:
9. http://b.rw/ppocQ8
Michael Brendan Dougherty | American Conservative | 24 August 2011
Diplomatic, yes. Moderate, no. "Moderate" Republicans tend to disagree with
their party on taxes, guns and abortion. "Huntsman’s record on those isn’t
just to the right of other moderates, it is to the right of most
conservatives" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/jon-huntsman-no-drama-conservative
[11]How To Make An Intelligent Blockbuster And Not Alienate People
Links:
11. http://b.rw/rmbgtu
Mark Kermode | Observer | 28 August 2011
"We've all learned to tolerate a level of overpaid, institutionalised
corporate dreadfulness that no one actually likes but everyone meekly
accepts because we've all been told that blockbuster movies have to be
stupid to survive" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-make-intelligent-blockbuster-and-not-alienate-people
[13]Don't Ignore Tim Cook's Sexuality
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nrJ4ZZ
Felix Salmon | Reuters | 25 August 2011
Tim Cook, successor of Steve Jobs as Apple boss, is now the most powerful
gay man in the world. "This is newsworthy, no? But you won’t find it
reported in any legacy/mainstream outlet." Why not? It's tantamount to a new
stigma [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dont-ignore-tim-cooks-sexuality
[15]1911, The Other Revolution
Links:
15. http://b.rw/nTcyaH
Isabel Hilton | Granta | 24 August 2011
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party's founding. And
the 100th anniversary of the overthrow of the imperial system by army
officers and Sun Yat Sen in 1911. Guess which one gets celebrated, and which
ignored [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/1911-other-revolution
FiveBooks Interview
[17]George Ayittey on Africa through African Eyes
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/george-ayittey-on-africa-through-african-eyes
The Ghanaian economist denounces the failure of leadership and Western
policy in Africa and explains what “African solutions to African problems”
would mean in practice [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/george-ayittey-on-africa-through-african-eyes
Featured Topic
[19]Revolution In Libya
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/revolution-libya
With rebels in control of Tripoli, the battle to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi's
regime has reached its endgame. Read our selection of articles about the
Libyan leader's brutal 42-year rule and the revolt that's raised hopes of a
better future [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/revolution-libya
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Tablet computers: Difference Engine: Reality dawns | The
Economist[22]t.co/GjloGqz via @[23]theeconomist [24]#browsings [25]More like
this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/08/tablet-computers
23. http://twitter.com/theeconomist
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/art-and-science-wine-by-james-halliday-and-hugh-johnson
[27]The Art and Science of Wine by James Halliday and Hugh Johnson
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/art-and-science-wine-by-james-halliday-and-hugh-johnson
[28]Randall Grahm says: “There are other winemaking books, but if you have
one wine book on a desert island this would probably be the one that you
want or need”[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/randall-grahm-on-wine
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Dragon Runner 10
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/dragon-runner-10
Throwable robot, or throwbot. You throw it somewhere—through a window,
say—and it gets to work [31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]William Gibson, on terrorism
Links:
32. http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/09/vulture_transcript_william_gib.html
If the terrorist can get you to think about what he’s doing as terrorism,
you’re already in his win position
[33]More quotes
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations