Newsletter 446
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]California And Bust
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ngkC8u
Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair | 29 September 2011
"The relationship between the people and their money in California is such
that you can pluck almost any city at random and enter a crisis." Lewis asks
Schwarzenegger why. Then visits officials on frontline of Golden State's
crisis [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/california-and-bust
[7]Amazon, The Company That Ate The World
Links:
7. http://b.rw/odhuRo
Brad Stone | Businessweek | 28 September 2011
Who can stop the e-commerce juggernaut? With new Kindle offering, Amazon
takes its place as the Walmart of device world, to Apple's Prada. Steve Jobs
set the market for tablet computers alight. Now Bezos wants to pour petrol
on it [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/amazon-company-ate-world
[9]I Can Find An Indicted Warlord
Links:
9. http://b.rw/mQW6ph
Mac McClelland | Mother Jones | 28 September 2011
His name is Bosco Ntaganda. He owns a bar, a farm and a mansion in Goma,
eastern Congo. And the ICC has a warrant out for him. So why isn't he in
jail? Because his gang pretty much runs Goma. If you cross him, he kills
you. Or worse [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/i-can-find-indicted-warlord
[11]Human Folly
Links:
11. http://b.rw/p9XaPq
Matthew Adams | New Humanist | 16 September 2011
Moriae Encomium by Erasmus revisited, 500 years later. Tried to unite
classical philosophy with Christianity. Instead sparked secular revolt. No
surprise, it's often "as if Christopher Hitchens has stepped on to the page"
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/human-folly
[13]Grabbing Dinner
Links:
13. http://b.rw/p45K3A
Bill Heavey | Garden & Gun | 15 September 2011
"You got to remember – you're not petting that frog. You're not slapping
that frog. You got to grab that frog." So begins a nighttime frogging
expedition in Louisiana. And frog eyes are whiteish. "Don't grab anything
with red eyes" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/grabbing-dinner
[15]Brad Pitt Stars As Brad Pitt
Links:
15. http://b.rw/n1pA7l
Anne Helen Petersen | Celebrity Gossip, Academic Style | 26 September 2011
"Jolie is intense, dark sexual energy; Pitt is golden, easygoing sex appeal.
That’s why their images go so well together. Sex and sex. Sex and cute, not
so much: Aniston and Pitt. Sex and snotty, also not so much: Paltrow and
Pitt" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/brad-pitt-stars-brad-pitt
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Dahlia Lithwick on US Supreme Court Justices
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dahlia-lithwick-on-us-supreme-court-justices
Who are the men and women in black robes who sit on America’s highest
judicial bench? A legal correspondent takes us inside this most influential
institution through a look at some of its most fascinating characters
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dahlia-lithwick-on-us-supreme-court-justices
Featured Topic
[19]Sex
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/topics/sex
Call girls, bondage, pornography, naked yoga, adultery and the science of
sperm; it's all here but maybe NSFW [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/topics/sex
Reader Recommendations
[21]@polit2k Sorry, but this trader's banking confession was no prank | The
Yes Men[22] t.co/awwaIkmf via @[23]guardian #[24]gfc2 #[25]browsings
[26]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://t.co/awwaIkmf
23. http://twitter.com/guardian
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
25. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/dicing-death-by-stephen-senn
[28]Dicing with Death by Stephen Senn
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/dicing-death-by-stephen-senn
[29]David Spiegelhalter says: “Stephen’s background is in medical
statistics, and he looks at clinical trials. He is full of very entertaining
jokes and rude remarks about people” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/david-spiegelhalter-on-statistics-and-risk
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]The World's Top Football Freestyler
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/worlds-top-football-freestyler
Don't try this inside. Extraordinary
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Diego Gambetta, on trust
Links:
33. http://www.stanford.edu/~mpblimpo/Trust_Blimpo2009.pdf
For trust to be relevant, there must be a possibility of betrayal
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations