Newsletter 465
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup
Links:
5. http://b.rw/oyvJBv
Victoria Barret | Forbes | 18 October 2011
It has 50m customers. 96% of them pay nothing. But it's grossing $240m this
year, and growing exponentially. Apple tried to buy it. Now Apple is trying
to kill it. "You're a feature, not a product." How Dropbox solved freemium
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dropbox-techs-hottest-startup
[7]Among The Russians
Links:
7. http://b.rw/pYKdom
Edward Docx | Prospect | 19 October 2011
Charming, light-touch account of meeting of European writers at Tolstoy
family estate. Talk concerns the great man, the position of writers in the
West and Russia, and the state of literary prizes. Much laughter, and vodka,
ensue [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/among-russians
[9]Riding The Wave Of Discontent
Links:
9. http://b.rw/mRgZCR
Stephen Walt | Foreign Policy | 18 October 2011
On protests, from OWS to the Arab Spring. "Ask yourself: How many
contemporary political leaders do you genuinely admire? How many of them
would rate a paragraph in a revised edition of _Profiles in Courage?_"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/riding-wave-discontent
[11]Europe: Just Getting Warmed Up
Links:
11. http://b.rw/natWW8
John Hussman | Hussman Funds | 17 October 2011
Don't be misled by recent financial market rises. This looks like denial.
And, if you have investments, it may be your best chance to review your
appetite for risk. That fiasco with French-Belgian bank Dexia was only the
start [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/europe-just-getting-warmed
[13]WP Columnist: Cut Aid To Israel
Links:
13. http://b.rw/pcjuus
MJ Rosenberg | Huffington Post | 18 October 2011
"For the first time in memory, if not ever, a highly respected mainstream
columnist [in the United States] is calling on the US to cut aid to Israel."
Are Congressmen and women listening? Might this be a significant moment?
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wp-columnist-cut-aid-israel
[15]Charles Bukowski On Censorship
Links:
15. http://b.rw/mSAczc
Charles Bukowski | Letters Of Note | 18 October 2011
Following a reader complaint, Bukowski's book _Tales of Ordinary Madness_
was removed from the shelves of a Dutch library in 1985 on the grounds that
it was sadistic and discriminatory. This was his response [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/charles-bukowski-censorship
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Ben Katchor on Picture Stories
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ben-katchor-on-picture-stories
Pictures operate in space, words in time, and the best stories are told with
both, says the acclaimed American author and cartoonist. He tells us how
visual narratives are making a deserved comeback [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/ben-katchor-on-picture-stories
Featured Topic
[19]Epic Adventures
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Extreme tourism, unwise adventure and plain bad luck. Enjoy it all from the
comfort of your armchair [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/epic-adventures
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]polit2k What Would Happen if Amazon Ruled Publishing?
@[22]TheAtlantic [23]t.co/qTeeQqF8 #[24]browsings "Publishing houses: Hide
your children. ..." [25]More like this
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21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://twitter.com/TheAtlantic
23. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/what-would-happen-if-amazon-ruled-publishing/246854/#.Tp2nXVl6pbg.twitter
24. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
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26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/great-expectations-by-charles-dickens
[27]Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/great-expectations-by-charles-dickens
[28]John Sutherland says: “I think that the first chapter of Great
Expectations is the finest thing of its kind that Dickens ever wrote”
[29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-sutherland-on-victorian-fiction
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Quantum Levitation
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/quantum-levitation
Interesting if true. Could lead to revolution in skateboards [31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Lemony Snicket, on equity
Links:
32. http://occupywriters.com/by-lemony-snicket
"Don’t ask yourself if something is fair. Ask someone else—a stranger in
the street, for example"
[33]More quotes
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations