Newsletter 440
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Facebook Boldly Annexes The Web
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pasxS8
Ben Elowitz | All Things Digital | 22 September 2011
Excellent essay on Facebook's new "Open Graph" initiative. Can it "fulfill
Google’s very own mission better than Google itself can, succeeding at a
whole new level of organizing and making accessible all the world’s
information"? [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/facebook-boldly-annexes-web
[7]Europe’s Debt Crisis Has Become A German Identity Crisis
Links:
7. http://b.rw/p0xiRT
Brendan Greeley | Businessweek | 21 September 2011
"To understand why Germans are struggling with the role they’re being asked
to play in the 21st century, you need to understand that they are still very
much attempting to atone for the 20th." Euro is about peace, not just
politics [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/europe’s-debt-crisis-has-become-german-identity-crisis
[9]‘The Finest Life You Ever Saw’
Links:
9. http://b.rw/nRook4
James Salter | NYRB | 22 September 2011
Lovely Salter piece assessing life and works of Ernest Hemingway. Trademark
writing style apparent at age of 16, when Hemingway wrote of a trout-fishing
trip: "Great fun fighting them in the dark in the deep swift river"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/‘-finest-life-you-ever-saw’
[11]Making A Case For More Candor
Links:
11. http://b.rw/nJY5W1
Connie Loizos | Pehub | 22 September 2011
Interview with Sam Harris. Talking particularly about start-ups, and
levelling with your investors, but good on honesty in general. Humans have
"a strong ability to deceive others, and a poor ability to detect deception
in others" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/making-case-more-candor
[13]My Lost Library: Books, Exile, and Identity
Links:
13. http://b.rw/oRfvS4
Ariel Dorfman | Chronicle Review | 18 September 2011
Lovely essay by Chilean writer on the joy, meaning and accumulation of
books. Enjoyable account, too, of the author's exile from his country, tied
to the story of the books he was forced to leave behind [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-lost-library-books-exile-and-identity
[15]Joplin: "Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!"
Links:
15. http://b.rw/qVs8ME
Luke Dittrich | Esquire | 22 September 2011
Gripping account of storm hitting Joplin, Missouri. "'Is that the tornado?
Is that what that roar is?' Which isn't the important question, either,
since its answer, in just a few moments, will become blindingly, terribly
obvious" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/joplin-jesus-jesus-jesus
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Kenan Malik on Morality Without God
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenan-malik-on-morality-without-god
Religion is often presented as the guardian of moral values. The problem
with this, says the author and broadcaster, is that it diminishes what it
means to be human. He draws on Plato and a medieval Arab poet to explain why
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/kenan-malik-on-morality-without-god
Featured Topic
[19]Palestine And The UN
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/palestine-and-un
The Palestinians are seeking enhanced status at the UN in a move aimed at
advancing their statehood ambitions. How will the process play out and what
are the implications for Palestinians, and for Israel? Read on to find out
[20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/palestine-and-un
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ Marshall Auerback: The ECB v. Germany | Naked Capitalism
[21]t.co/qZN46NF0 _#gfc2 #browsings_ "Bundesbankers losing the battle"
@yvessmith [22]#browsings [23]More like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/qZN46NF0
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/tribal-business-school-by-jo-owen
[25]Tribal Business School by Jo Owen
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/tribal-business-school-by-jo-owen
[26]Brett Wigdortz says: “A lesson I took was that the best leaders avoid
direct conflict if there is another way to achieve their goals”
[27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/brett-wigdortz-on-leadership
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]When A Market Fails
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/when-market-fails
Online dating dissected. And how to double the chance of going on a second
date
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Lord Ismay, on Nato's purpose
Links:
30. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904106704576580522348961298.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_carousel_2
"To keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations