Newsletter 464
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The Great Tech War Of 2012
Links:
5. http://b.rw/pzMXl3
Farhad Manjoo | Fast Company | 17 October 2011
The four American companies that have come to define 21st century
information technology and entertainment are on the verge of war. Amazon,
Apple, Facebook and Google will fight it out across many markets. The rest
are dust [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-tech-war-2012
[7]Holes In US Legal Case Against Alleged Iran Plotter
Links:
7. http://b.rw/n4HXjY
Marcy Wheeler | Atlantic | 17 October 2011
First there was the implausibility. Now there appear to be significant holes
in the legal case presented against Manssor Arbabsiar, the used-car salesman
accused of plotting to blow up the Saudi ambassador in Washington
[8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/holes-us-legal-case-against-alleged-iran-plotter
[9]A Reality Show Of Some Interest
Links:
9. http://b.rw/pMzZzO
Alec Bings | McSweeney's | 17 October 2011
Promising new column about life as a civil servant in Washington, DC. "For
those of us who depend on the whim of the Oval Office to give our lives
purpose, election-time tends to hand us a professional kind of
schizophrenia" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/reality-show-some-interest
[11]Political Economy Of Unhappiness
Links:
11. http://b.rw/qMKoxj
Will Davies | New Left Review | 16 October 2011
New political interest in happiness and wellbeing is bringing psychology and
economics together again after a century of separation. Leading to
re-evaluation of work. Used to be viewed as a curse. But unemployment is far
worse [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/political-economy-unhappiness
[13]Peyton's Place
Links:
13. http://b.rw/qfoiT8
John Jeremiah Sullivan | GQ | 17 October 2011
Writer and family move from one-bed apartment to big neo-colonial house in
Wilmington, North Carolina. But, oops, how to pay the mortgage? The house
had been used in TV shows and films before. So why not again? Fun stuff
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/peytons-place
[15]Skin Deep: The Fall Of Fur
Links:
15. http://b.rw/pBMjGm
Carol Dyhouse | History Today | 18 October 2011
On the rise and fall of the fur coat. Once the height of luxury. Skunk or
polecat if you couldn't afford mink. What did for it wasn't so much animal
rights as central heating and new fashions of the swinging sixties
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/skin-deep-fall-fur
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Claire Fox on Freedom of Speech
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/claire-fox-on-freedom-speech
Modern society has interpreted John Stuart Mill's concept of tolerance to
mean that we should avoid giving offence. The director of the Institute of
Ideas tells us about books that show how far we've departed from what was
meant [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/claire-fox-on-freedom-speech
Featured Topic
[19]Great Obituaries
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Raise a glass to life's characters with our collection of writing about
eventful, unconventional lives. RIP [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/great-obituaries
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]smiler29 do we inherit happiness? Interesting Economist article
[22]#browsings [23]t.co/B45jT0RB [24]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/smiler29
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://www.economist.com/node/21532247?fsrc=scn/tw/te/mt/transporterofdelight
24. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[25]Book of the Day
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/spanish-kitchen-by-nicholas-butcher
[26]The Spanish Kitchen by Nicholas Butcher
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/spanish-kitchen-by-nicholas-butcher
[27]Samantha Clark says: “It is a very affectionate personal account of his
life in Spain. It is not your normal classic cookery book. There is a lot of
chat” [28]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/samantha-clark-on-spanish-and-moorish-cooking
28. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[29]My Date With Keynes
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos/my-date-keynes
By Dorian Electra. The sequel to "I'm In Love With Friedrich Hayek!"
[30]More videos
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[31]Andrew Brown, on intelligent design
Links:
31. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2011/oct/15/creationist-disproof-darwin-evolution
"You get design without a designer the same way the wind blows without a
blower"
[32]More quotes
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/quotations