Weekly newsletter 29
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Best of the Week
[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 Great Tech War Of 2012
Links:
7. http://b.rw/pzMXl3
Farhad Manjoo | Fast Company | 17 October 2011
The four American companies that have come to define 21st century
information technology and entertainment are on the verge of war. Amazon,
Apple, Facebook and Google will fight it out across many markets. The rest
are dust [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/great-tech-war-2012
[9]My Soapbox Advice To OWS
Links:
9. http://b.rw/nfWflf
Mark Cuban | Blog Maverick | 14 October 2011
Billionaire offers an agenda to Wall Street protesters. Reach out to small
shareholders everywhere. Call for a tax on financial transactions. Cap
student loans at $2,000 a year. Turn all investment banks into partnerships
[10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/my-soapbox-advice-ows
[11]How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect
Links:
11. http://b.rw/p8ce9k
Jonah Lehrer | Frontal Cortex | 18 October 2011
We all know stories get embellished. Now we know a bit more about how and
why it happens. New research shows that the opinion of other people can
alter our personal memories, even over a relatively short period of time
[12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-friends-ruin-memory-social-conformity-effect
[13]Dropbox: Tech's Hottest Startup
Links:
13. 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
[14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/dropbox-techs-hottest-startup
[15]Among The Russians
Links:
15. 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 [16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/among-russians
[17]Peyton's Place
Links:
17. http://b.rw/qfoiT8
John Jeremiah Sullivan | GQ | 17 October 2011
Writer and family move from one-bed apartment to big neo-colonial house in
Wilmington, North Carolina. But, oops, how to pay the mortgage? The house
had been used in TV shows and films before. So why not again? Fun stuff
[18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/peytons-place
[19]The Invisible Fastball
Links:
19. http://b.rw/oidlx3
Chris Ballard & Owen Good | Sports Illustrated | 11 October 2011
A baseball tale from 1950s America when players were neither wealthy nor
coddled. And a minor league pitcher by the name of Kelly Jack Swift, who
farmed tobacco and threw only fastballs, accomplished something we'll never
see again [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/invisible-fastball
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Norman Stone on Turkish History
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-stone-on-turkish-history
Turkey is rediscovering its Ottoman past, says the British professor living
in Ankara. He tells us where to find compelling insights into Turkish
history, and says he’d rather have medical treatment in Turkey than England
[22]Read on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/norman-stone-on-turkish-history
Featured Topic
[23]Revolution In Libya
Links:
23. 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 [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/reports/revolution-libya
Reader Recommendations
_@mrianleslie_ Will Self on being ill, amazingly good writing
[25]t.co/m5WAMmBF [26]#browsings [27]More like this
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25. http://t.co/m5WAMmBF
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/heroes-by-robert-cormier
[29]Heroes by Robert Cormier
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/heroes-by-robert-cormier
[30]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” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/melvin-burgess-on-children’s-and-teenage-fiction
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]"Lord Monckton"
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/lord-monckton
Climate-change skeptic unmasked as a deep-cover comic alter-ego of Sasha
Baron-Cohen [33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Thomas Mann, on writing
Links:
34. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/10/among-the-russians
“Writers are people who find writing more difficult than other people"
[35]More quotes
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35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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