Newsletter 452
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Mitt, We Hardly Knew Ye!
Links:
5. http://b.rw/ohEpT8
Christopher Benfey | NYRB | 3 October 2011
Nicely crafted piece giving view from Massachusetts on former governor and
would-be president. Mostly away, with his eyes on a bigger prize. No
political principles he wouldn't be prepared to sacrifice. In a word,
Nixonian [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mitt-we-hardly-knew-ye
[7]So Who Is The Real Amanda Knox?
Links:
7. http://b.rw/r4cOPU
Cristina Odone | Telegraph | 4 October 2011
Thoughtful piece reveals gulf between US and Italian values. The "case has
shaken Italy’s justice system more than any earthquake could, yet many
Italians resent the exposure of its weaknesses by seemingly pushy, wealthy
Americans" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/so-who-real-amanda-knox
[9]Empire Of Scareware
Links:
9. http://b.rw/puKx2g
Benjamin Wallace | Wired | 27 September 2011
How two smart but sleazy guys built a $180m-a-year business by marketing
bogus antivirus software. Their masterstroke: Pop-up ads masquerading as
Windows alerts—“You have 284 severe system threats”—that panicked users into
buying [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/empire-scareware
[11]Terrifying Last Days of Assad’s Syria
Links:
11. http://b.rw/pWf9Xe
Theo Padnos | New Republic | 4 October 2011
Rambling but always interesting essay on dark power of the Assad dynasty.
Bashar has missed the moment to compromise, and will have to go. But it's
been hard for the protests to get traction in a country where so much is
secret [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/terrifying-last-days-assad’s-syria
[13]Bugger Off
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qdA895
Evgeny Morozov | Boston Review | 4 October 2011
Not our choice of headline. And probably not Evgeny's either. But still, an
interesting review-essay about why the government can't wiretap online
communications the way it can wiretap phones. The traffic just goes
somewhere else [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bugger
[15]The Ghostwriter
Links:
15. http://b.rw/pnhxNB
Andrew Romano | GQ | 3 October 2011
When Hank Williams, inventor of modern country music, died he left only
about 100 songs. But then four notebooks of unrecorded lyrics came to light.
What happened to them, and what do they tell us about Williams, and
songwriting? [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/ghostwriter
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Lyndall Gordon on Biographies
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lyndall-gordon-on-biographies
The inner life is a mystery but the best biographies expose the hidden
kernel of a person, says the biographer. She picks five books that push the
boundaries of the genre, and compares documentary and imaginative truth
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/lyndall-gordon-on-biographies
Featured Topic
[19]Natural History
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/natural-history
Everything you need to know about natural history. Experts from London's
Natural History Museum discuss their top five books on everything - from
bats to plants, dinosaurs to meteorites and more [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/natural-history
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]damienjoyce Interview with T Bone Burnett on the great storytellers
of #[22]music in the Telegraph [23]t.co/PGXC1fo4via @[24]TelegraphBooks
[25]#browsings [26]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/damienjoyce
22. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#music
23. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/8804389/T-Bone-Burnett-The-musical-maestro.html
24. http://twitter.com/TelegraphBooks
25. https://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/american-original-by-joan-biskupic
[28]American Original by Joan Biskupic
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/american-original-by-joan-biskupic
[29]Dahlia Lithwick says: “If you are going to read a biography of a sitting
justice, you can't go wrong with Scalia because he's a flamboyant literary
character” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/dahlia-lithwick-on-us-supreme-court-justices
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]State Of The Global Economy
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/state-global-economy
Stiglitz on top form talking about job creation, demand, stimulus and
industrial policy
[32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Kathryn Williams, on punctuation
Links:
33. http://twitter.com/#!/iamnotkathryn/status/106366166997549056
"An apostrophe is the difference between a business that knows its shit
and a business that knows it's shit"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations