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• Sean Turnell: How Myanmar’s Corrupt Junta Robbed Burma – WSJ.com – "Burma Isn’t Broke: The junta, not a lack of resources, is to blame for the people’s poverty."
• The Longest Way 1.0 (video) – Time-lapse: walking around China for a year
• Hull seal loan deal for Altidore — BBC SPORT | Football – Hull have signed Villarreal's American international striker Jozy Altidore on a season-long loan.
• Michiko Kakutani, in the NY Times: Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’ – Another Doorway to the Paranoid Dimension – Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice” is a big, clunky time machine of a novel that transports us back to the early 1970s, back to a California of surfers and surf bunnies, bikers and biker chicks, hippies, freaks and righteous potheads.
• YouTube – World Air Traffic 24 Hour Period – Mesmerizing.
• Nick McDonell Crams a Lot Into a Youthful Literary Life – NYTimes.com – Nick McDonell ought to be an easy person to dislike. He is young, smart, good looking and ridiculously well connected.