Newsletter 458
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Putin’s Rasputin
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nB3vum
Peter Pomerantsev | LRB | 12 October 2011
On Vladislav Surkov, "real genius of Putin era". Half-Chechen. Expelled from
drama school. Bodyguard then PR man for Khodorkovsky. Recruited by Yeltsin.
Chief ideologue, grey cardinal of Putin. Kremlin power player par excellence
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/putin’s-rasputin
[7]My Advice To The Occupy Wall Street Protesters
Links:
7. http://b.rw/ofzFVy
Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone | 12 October 2011
"I've been down to 'Occupy Wall Street' twice now, and I love it. But the
time is coming when the movement is going to have to offer concrete
solutions to the problems posed by Wall Street." Here are Taibbi's five
suggested demands [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-advice-occupy-wall-street-protesters
[9]A Shocking Rivalry
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pikUiJ
Gilbert King | Smithsonian | 11 October 2011
Extraordinary story behind War of the Currents, waged between Thomas Edison
and George Westinghouse. Led to a race to execute first criminal by
electrocution: “It has been a brutal affair. They could have done better
with an ax" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/shocking-rivalry
[11]A Sociology Of Steve Jobs
Links:
11. http://b.rw/r0VTme
Kieran Healy | Kieran Healy | 10 October 2011
Customers have emotional relationships with Apple. They associate it with
charisma and perfectionism. Yet those beautiful iPhones come from sweatshops
in China. Jobs's successors will have to resolve that cognitive dissonance
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/sociology-steve-jobs
[13]The Many Lives Of Hazel Bryan
Links:
13. http://b.rw/nzVK5o
David Margolick | Slate | 11 October 2011
At 15 she was the poster-child of racism in Little Rock, photographed
screaming at a black student trying to get into school. Then she grew up,
changed her views—and spent the rest of her life atoning for that picture
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/many-lives-hazel-bryan
[15]The True Cost Of Commuting
Links:
15. http://b.rw/pDucTE
Anonymous | Mr Money Mustache | 6 October 2011
What constitutes a reasonable commute? Well, try applying some simple maths.
A couple who have a 40-minute commute over 10 years pay out as much as
$125,000. And they effectively work a six-day week, every week. Worth
considering [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/true-cost-commuting
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Eva Hoffman on Memoirs
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eva-hoffman-on-memoirs
To tell your own story is to confront and construct your deepest sense of
self. The author of _Lost in Translation_ tells us about five striking
memoirs of identity, dislocation and belonging
[18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/eva-hoffman-on-memoirs
Featured Topic
[19]Mind And Brain
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mind-and-brain
Everything you wanted - or didn't want - to know about your mind. From how
many friends your brain can cope with, to experts discussing consciousness
and mental illness [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/mind-and-brain
Reader Recommendations
[21]KevinLindsay RT @[22]ki_dotcom: Read the first @[23]mcsweeneys
column by @[24]davehill77 of
@[25]negativedunks at [26]t.co/fqVw7d8Q
@[27]sportsfeat #[28]longreads [29]#browsings [30]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/KevinLindsay
22. http://twitter.com/ki_dotcom
23. http://twitter.com/mcsweeneys
24. http://twitter.com/davehill77
25. http://twitter.com/negativedunks
26. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/100-to-win-on-miami-ghost-in-the-2nd-at-saratoga
27. http://twitter.com/sportsfeat
28. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#longreads
29. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
30. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[31]Book of the Day
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/maltese-falcon-by-dashiell-hammett
[32]The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/maltese-falcon-by-dashiell-hammett
_[33]Armistead Maupin says_: _“It was the first, and probably the greatest,
hard-boiled detective novel. It pretty much invented the genre and its
archetypes”_
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/armistead-maupin-on-san-francisco-novels
[34]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[35]Occupy Wall St
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/videos/occupy-wall-st
Economics professor Michael Hudson discusses popular protests aimed at the
dysfunctional financial system
[36]More videos
Links:
36. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[37]Mark Greif, on taste
Links:
37. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Greif-t.html?src=me&pagewanted=all
Taste is not stable and peaceful, but a means of strategy and competition.
Those superior in wealth use it to pretend they are superior in spirit
[38]More quotes
Links:
38. http://thebrowser.com/quotations