Newsletter 450
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]It Knows
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nBJ6Iy
Daniel Soar | LRB | 28 September 2011
Most of us use Google without appreciating what a massive information
gathering enterprise it is. And that we, the users, are its product, not its
customers. What it knows, and may seek to know, about us is quite
mind-boggling [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/it-knows
[7]A Search For The Real Ratko Mladic
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qHpc7p
Erich Follath | Spiegel | 30 September 2011
Hollywood could not have found a more convincing war villain, wrote Richard
Holbrooke. "He was one of those lethal combinations that history thrusts up
occasionally – a charismatic murderer." But that's not how everyone sees it
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/search-real-ratko-mladic
[9]Innovation Starvation
Links:
9. http://b.rw/rpIm7V
Neal Stephenson | World Policy Journal | 1 October 2011
America has given up on space. It can't hack alternative energy. It doesn't
do big science because it's frightened of risk, frightened of failure. Even
science fiction has shifted focus towards darker, more sceptical themes
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/innovation-starvation
[11]The Price Of Oranges
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qq7Qca
Jason Burke | Guernica | 3 October 2011
With Benazir Bhutto. Long-time South Asia correspondent recalls encounters
with former Pakistani head of government, usually over tea and _burfi_.
Liked to gossip; didn't grasp how country had changed during her exile
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/price-oranges
[13]The Coffee Shop Baby
Links:
13. http://b.rw/pYUI71
Tony Dokoupil | Newsweek | 2 October 2011
Dismayed by sperm bank pricing, Beth and Nicole typed these words into a
search engine: "Free sperm donor". The underground world they found spurred
them to launch the Free Sperm Donor Registry. Reporter investigates
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/coffee-shop-baby
[15]La Bella Vita
Links:
15. http://b.rw/p4ul8P
Joshua Levine | WSJ | 29 September 2011
Interesting if friendly profile of Ferrari chairman, Luca Cordero di
Montezemolo. Elegant aristocrat who pulled Ferrari up by its bootstraps.
Very popular in Italy. Isn't doing much to dampen speculation that he could
enter politics [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/la-bella-vita
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Orson Scott Card on Science Fiction
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/orson-scott-card-on-science-fiction
The sci-fi author tells us how the genre evolved from “gosh-wow” novels of
the 1920s into some of the most inventive fiction being written today. He
recommends five books sure to get new readers hooked [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/orson-scott-card-on-science-fiction
Featured Topic
[19]China
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/china
Everything you need to know about the rising power. Original interviews with
experts such as Richard Baum, Isabel Hilton, and Xinran - and the books and
articles they recommend [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/china
Reader Recommendations
_ _[21]@farnamstreet It’s Good to Be Michael
Lewis [22]http://goo.gl/5UPqD [23]#longreads [24]#browsings [25]More like
this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/#!/search/@farnamstreet
22. http://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/michael-lewis-2011-10
23. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
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/selected-letters-martha-gellhorn-by-caroline-moorehead
[27]The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn by Caroline Moorehead
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/selected-letters-martha-gellhorn-by-caroline-moorehead
[28]Gayle Lemmon says: “She’s funny, charming and compelling about why
gender shouldn’t keep her from being able to cover war” [29]FiveBooks
Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/gayle-lemmon-on-women-and-war
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]The Phony War
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/phony-war
Androids and iPhone make love, not war. From the Swiss Broadcasting
Corporation [31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Warren Buffett, on investing
Links:
32. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2011/10/warren-buffett-on-temperament
"Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to
control the urges that get other people into trouble"
[33]More quotes
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations