Newsletter 692
[1]All of our Best of the Moment article recommendations, plus
FiveBooks interviews and other selected content from thebrower.com
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[6]Spain: Simmering Anger In Seville
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6. http://b.rw/McgHi5
Paul Mason | BBC | 6 June 2012
Trouble with banks and a real estate bust is only the beginning. Mason
takes the temperature of Spain, a country now in the grip of a complex
political-economic crisis with the potential to shatter the eurozone
[7]Comments
Links:
7. https://thebrowser.com/articles/spain-simmering-anger-seville
[8]The Curious Case Of Internet Privacy
Links:
8. http://b.rw/KcO4q5
Cory Doctorow | MIT Tech Review | 6 June 2012
"The users and the analytics people are in a shooting war, but only the
analytics people are armed. There's a business opportunity for a
company that wants to supply arms to the rebels instead of the empire"
[9]Comments
Links:
9. https://thebrowser.com/articles/curious-case-internet-privacy
[10]The Hard Truth About Political Compromise
Links:
10. http://b.rw/L9TPQf
Joshua Rothman | Boston Globe | 3 June 2012
"A vote against compromise might feel like a vote for purity, for
boldness—but it’s a vote for the status quo. In a democracy where
people disagree on fundamental questions, no-compromise politicians
create logjams, not progress" [11]Comments
Links:
11. https://thebrowser.com/articles/hard-truth-about-political-compromise
[12]Interrogating The Makers And Stars Of The Wire
Links:
12. http://b.rw/KG10Eh
David Simon, Ed Burns et al | Maxim | 30 May 2012
In the mid-1980s David Simon, a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun,
met Ed Burns, a homicide detective in the midst of a case involving a
local drug kingpin and folk hero. A seed was planted and an unlikely
project was born [13]Comments
Links:
13. https://thebrowser.com/articles/maxim-interrogates-makers-and-stars-wire
[14]Alan Rusbridger: The Quiet Evangelist
Links:
14. http://b.rw/MebhXa
Peter Wilby | New Statesman | 30 May 2012
Huge feature on The Guardian newspaper, and its editor Alan Rusbridger.
Traditional advertising revenues have collapsed, losses now exceed
£30m. The pressure is on. Can Rusbridger turn it around? [15]Comments
Links:
15. https://thebrowser.com/articles/alan-rusbridger-quiet-evangelist
[16]How Silence Works
Links:
16. http://b.rw/MelkLZ
Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston | Awl | 1 June 2012
Surpisingly open email conversation with four trappist monks. Turns out
they don't take a vow of silence, can talk when necessary. "Cultivating
silence in a group is hard and a discipline we have to commit to over
and over again" [17]Comments
Links:
17. https://thebrowser.com/articles/how-silence-works
FiveBooks Interview
[18]Michael Carlson on Baseball Novels
Links:
18. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-carlson-on-baseball-novels
The sports pundit says baseball reflects an American ideal which is now
an American fantasy. It works well as a metaphor for life, which may be
why there have been so many good novels written about it [19]Read on
Links:
19. https://thebrowser.com/interviews/michael-carlson-on-baseball-novels
Featured Special Report
[20]Population and Resources
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20. https://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Will humans run out of natural resources? Is population growth a danger
to society? Or will human innovation conquer? You decide [21]Read on
Links:
21. https://thebrowser.com/reports/population-and-resources
Reader Recommendations
@[22]polit2k The Accidental Empire by George Soros - Project Syndicate
via @[23]ProSyn #[24]oped [25]t.co/DBtKx4yK #[26]browsings
#[27]eurocrisis #[28]gfc2
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22. http://twitter.com/polit2k
23. http://twitter.com/ProSyn
24. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#oped
25. http://t.co/DBtKx4yK
26. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#browsings
27. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#eurocrisis
28. http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=#gfc2
[29]More like this
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29. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Day
[30]Book of the Day
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30. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/deep-song-and-other-prose-by-federico-garcí-lorca
[31]Deep Song and Other Prose by Federico García Lorca
Links:
31. https://thebrowser.com/recommended/deep-song-and-other-prose-by-federico-garcí-lorca
[32]Jason Webster says: “Lorca is someone who is deeply, deeply engaged
in this kind of poetic, mystical, surrealist, non-rational theme that
is so much part of Spain. And I think he, more than any other person,
really gets to grips with it.” [33]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/jason-webster-on-wonder-spain
33. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks/archive
Video of the Day
[34]Greece: Golden Dawn Politician Lashes Out
Links:
34. https://thebrowser.com/videos/greece-golden-dawn-politician-lashes-out
Who thought voting for this bunch was a good idea?
[35]More videos
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35. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Day
[36]Ray Bradbury, on art
Links:
36. http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/07/rip-ray-bradbury-quotes?
"We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth"
[37]More quotes
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37. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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