Newsletter 483
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]Financial Reform: Unfinished Business
Links:
5. http://b.rw/vKBJsz
Paul Volcker | NYRB | 3 November 2011
Compelling call for action on finance industry. "Structural change is
necessary. As it stands, the reform effort is incomplete. It needs fresh
impetus. I challenge governments and central banks to take up the unfinished
agenda" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/financial-reform-unfinished-business
[7]How To Build The Pixar Of The iPad Age
Links:
7. http://b.rw/vU2gS1
Sarah Rich & Alexis Madrigal | Atlantic | 2 November 2011
"Most of the best things revolve around food, puppets and explosives." Fine
backgrounder on Moonbot, creative animation company set to revolutionise
children's e-book market with visually stunning iPad apps [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-build-pixar-ipad-age-shreveport-louisiana
[9]Would Obama Greenlight An Israeli Attack On Iran?
Links:
9. http://b.rw/vOsUHp
Juan Cole | Informed Comment | 4 November 2011
There's much talk in Israel about bombing Iran. Hard to judge if
Netanyahu/Barak are serious or just trying to intimidate Tehran. But
doubtful they'd launch attack without US green light. Here's why they're
unlikely to get one [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/would-obama-greenlight-israeli-attack-iran
[11]The Rules Of Succession
Links:
11. http://b.rw/vJOjmZ
Sarah Ellison | Vanity Fair | 3 November 2011
On the sparring and jockeying for position among Rupert Murdoch's children.
And, when their spouses are included, there's plenty of ill-feeling to go
around. An enjoyable weekend read, if a little short on new information
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rules-succession
[13]Save Us From White Knights
Links:
13. http://b.rw/uaELml
Matt Steinglass | Economist | 4 November 2011
Americans periodically look to non-politicians for new leadership. Witness
rise of Herman Cain. But do outsiders do well? Main examples in American
history: Eisenhower and Hoover. In world politics: Putin. Not all that
encouraging [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/save-us-white-knights
[15]An Unexpected Alliance
Links:
15. http://b.rw/tVeVqt
Lee Siegel | Intelligent Life | 1 November 2011
On the correspondence between Groucho Marx and TS Eliot. Began when Eliot, a
fan of "Duck Soup", asked for a picture of Marx, and led to an awkward
dinner. "The two men found a mesmerising bond in each other’s very
alienness" [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/unexpected-alliance
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Larry Doyle on Comic Writing
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/larry-doyle-on-comic-writing
What makes for great comic writing? Is it possible to say? The author and
former Simpsons writer gives us his personal choice of five pitch-perfect
examples [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/larry-doyle-on-comic-writing
Featured Topic
[19]Moral Philosophy
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/moral-philosophy
Do babies have morals? Does surveillance make us better? Is free will an
illusion or not? Is there such a thing as evil? Get to grips with the big
questions of right and wrong [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/moral-philosophy
Reader Recommendations
@[21]polit2k Britain turns on 'disreputable' Germany as relations sour over
eurozone crisis | Nicholas Watt[22]
t.co/CeD8p0hb @[23]guardian #[24]browsings [25]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/polit2k
22. http://t.co/CeD8p0hb
23. http://twitter.com/guardian
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
25. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[26]Book of the Day
Links:
26. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/my-traitor’s-heart-south-african-exile-returns-face-his-country-his-tribe-and-his-consci
[27]My Traitor’s Heart by Rian Malan
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/my-traitor’s-heart-south-african-exile-returns-face-his-country-his-tribe-and-his-consci
[28]Heather Brooke says: “ My Traitor’s Heart is perhaps the most important
memoir that has ever been published by a white South African. Here is a man
who stared into the irreconcilable inner turmoils that are implicit in the
condition of African whiteness" [29]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/heather-brooke-on-holding-power-account
29. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[30]Siri Meets Furby
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/videos/siri-meets-furby
A one-joke video. But prophetic. Soon the world will be full of machines
conversing [31]More videos
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[32]Will Self, on crowds
Links:
32. http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/ian-leslie/crowds
“The crowd is stupider than the averaging of its component minds"
[33]More quotes
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/quotations