Newsletter 467
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Obituary: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
Links:
5. http://b.rw/qAjXDV
Anonymous | Telegraph | 20 October 2011
Every bit as good as you might expect. At an African Union summit, "his
entourage consisted of a personal jet, a container ship loaded with buses,
goat carcases and prayer mats, $6m in petty cash and 400 security guards"
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-colonel-muammar-gaddafi
[7]The Green Bay Packers Have the Best Owners in Football
Links:
7. http://b.rw/qB1iEZ
Karl Taro Greenfeld | Businessweek | 20 October 2011
The fans are shareholders. The chief executive is a union leader and
ex-player (the only one to win the Super Bowl as both CEO and player). The
city is a dot on the map. The bizarre anomaly of the franchise that rules
the NFL [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/green-bay-packers-have-best-owners-football
[9]Bombs And The Boy
Links:
9. http://b.rw/qxFoiD
Nathan Bradley | McSweeney's | 19 October 2011
A war story from Afghanistan. "I wanted to be a witness, full of
unimpeachable authenticity. But eventually, every witness to atrocity
becomes a participant. And every witness to tragedy becomes bereaved"
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/bombs-and-boy
[11]The Road To Melville
Links:
11. http://b.rw/o0ZnN8
Nathaniel Philbrick | Vanity Fair | 16 October 2011
"For me, Moby-Dick is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it
is a metaphysical survival manual—the best guidebook there is for a literate
man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown" [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/road-melville
[13]The Real Deng
Links:
13. http://b.rw/r1NRkB
Fang Lizhi | NYRB | 20 October 2011
History remembers Deng Xiaoping as hero, prime mover of China's
modernisation. Tiananmen massacre excused as means to an end. But what end?
Deng's greatest success was to increase power and wealth of China's ruling
class [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/real-deng
[15]Madame de Pompadour: The Other Cheek
Links:
15. http://b.rw/nqXSGX
Colin Jones | History Today | 20 October 2011
Fun excursion to the court of Louis XV and a book of obscene drawings poking
fun at his long-time mistress. The book was "potential political dynamite"
and, now rescued from obscurity, is a fascinating part of the historical
record [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/madame-de-pompadour-other-cheek
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Charles Isherwood on Broadway
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/charles-isherwood-on-broadway
What divides a hit from a flop, artistically speaking? The New York Times
theatre critic takes us behind the scenes to assess the art of writing for
Broadway and the rules for avoiding musical disaster [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/charles-isherwood-on-broadway
Featured Topic
[19]Revolution In Libya
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/revolution-libya
With the death of Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan uprising is almost complete
and the nation-building can begin. Read our selection of articles about the
ousted Libyan leader's brutal 42-year rule and the revolt that's raised
hopes of a better future [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/revolution-libya
Reader Recommendations
_@mrianleslie_ Will Self on being ill, amazingly good writing
[21]t.co/m5WAMmBF [22]#browsings [23]More like this
Links:
21. http://t.co/m5WAMmBF
22. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
23. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[24]Book of the Day
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/heroes-by-robert-cormier
[25]Heroes by Robert Cormier
Links:
25. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/heroes-by-robert-cormier
[26]Melvin Burgess says: “Cormier was doing stuff for teenagers long before
anyone else. I think he is the single most important writer in this genre by
a long chalk” [27]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/melvin-burgess-on-children’s-and-teenage-fiction
27. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[28]Michael Winslow's Whole Lotta Love
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/videos/michael-winslows-whole-lotta-love
If you loved the Led Zeppelin original, you'll love this. If not, then not
[29]More videos
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[30]Jonathan Haidt, on politics
Links:
30. http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/20/the-moral-foundations-of-occup
"Each political culture, like each culinary culture, creates its own
cuisine, using elements that lack immediate appeal on their own, such as
bitterness"
[31]More quotes
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/quotations