Newsletter 486
[1]The Browser
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com
[5]The King Of Human Error
Links:
5. http://b.rw/vas7z8
Michael Lewis | Vanity Fair | 8 November 2011
"When I first met Kahneman he was making himself more miserable about his
unfinished book than any writer I’d seen. It turned out to be just a warm-up
for the misery to come, the start of an extraordinary act of literary
masochism" [6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/king-human-error
[7]Anonymous 101: Introduction To The Lulz
Links:
7. http://b.rw/s2kras
Quinn Norton | Wired | 8 November 2011
Wired embeds journalist with Anonymous. What's not to like? Here's the first
of her reports, tracing the history of the hacker group to the 4chan
bulletin boards, plus some 18th century antecedents. Prepare to meet the
Trickster God [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/anonymous-101-introduction-lulz
[9]A Priest Bears Witness
Links:
9. http://b.rw/s939XX
Sarah Breger | Moment | 31 October 2011
Western perception of Holocaust is dominated by gas chambers of Auschwitz.
But over a third of the murdered six million were killed by bullets much
further east, many in Ukraine. A French Catholic priest is uncovering what
happened [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/priest-bears-witness
[11]Decline Of Horse Racing
Links:
11. http://b.rw/tXuJRR
Charles Pierce | Grantland | 7 November 2011
Once the centre of the American sporting and gambling universe. Now the
tracks are moribund, limping along on slot-machine revenues. But no-one can
take away the history and romance. Horses are less a sport than a way of
life [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/decline-horse-racing
[13]Yours, Plum
Links:
13. http://b.rw/saSsPf
Roger Kimball | Literary Review | 6 November 2011
"The shy, socially awkward Wodehouse burned at a low wattage. The librettist
Guy Bolton, recalling an innocent dalliance with a chorus girl, spoke of
Wodehouse 'sowing his one wild oat.'" Charming piece on one of the great
authors [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/yours-plum
[15]Dewayne Dedmon's Leap Of Faith
Links:
15. http://b.rw/vld74a
Chris Ballard | Sports Illustrated | 8 November 2011
Discouraged for religious reasons from playing sport, a young Jehovah's
Witness who would soon be seven feet tall had to decide whether to follow
his mother's strict beliefs or his interest in basketball. This is what
happened [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dewayne-dedmons-leap-faith
FiveBooks Interview
[17]Alice Bell on Science Books for Children
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alice-bell-on-science-books-children
Children learn in many different ways and the best science books for young
people reflect that, says the science writer. Her suggested reading takes in
robots used to explain sex and a picture book about dinosaurs [18]Read on
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/alice-bell-on-science-books-children
Featured Topic
[19]Extreme Food
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
From foraging in the wild to foul restaurant dining, here is our toothsome
selection of writing on the world of extreme food [20]Read on
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/reports/extreme-food
Reader Recommendations
_@_[21]damienjoyce 'Blues dues' on how Esi Edugyan’s second novel went from
shelved to success in @[22]npbooks [23]t.co/HqftgoNb #[24]blues
[25]#browsings [26]More like this
Links:
21. http://twitter.com/damienjoyce
22. http://twitter.com/npbooks
23. http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/11/08/blues-dues-esi-edugyan’s-second-novel-went-from-shelved-to-success/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#blues
25. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
26. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[27]Book of the Day
Links:
27. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/chosen-by-chaim-potok
[28]The Chosen by Chaim Potok
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/chosen-by-chaim-potok
[29]Allegra Goodman says: “The book was a bestseller and was made into a
beautiful movie. It is the first Jewish American book that really deals with
religious people” [30]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/allegra-goodman-on-jewish-fiction
30. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[31]All-New Asimo
Links:
31. http://thebrowser.com/videos/all-new-asimo
Running robot. How long before one of these gets weaponised? [32]More videos
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[33]Michael Arrington, on success
Links:
33. http://twitter.com/arrington/status/134160606646378496
"If failure doesn't make you a loser, then success doesn't really make you
a winner"
[34]More quotes
Links:
34. http://thebrowser.com/quotations