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