Some Thailand-related, some not:
- The Foxification of news: In the internet age, transparency may count for more than objectivity — The Economist
- ‘Page One’ Excerpt: How The New York Times learned to stop worrying and love the blog — Poynter.org
- Byliner: “Discover & discuss great reads by great writers.” — Byliner.com
- What’s Scrabble When You Can Play Novelist? — New York Times
- The mother of all tail risks: A US technical default would convulse markets. Nothing else is certain — The Economist
- Survival Thai: “Learn Thai the easy way with signs in the street” — www.survivalthai.com
- 5 Voyeuristic, Cross-Disciplinary Peeks Inside Great Creators’ Notebooks — brain pickings
- Healthfully ever after, or why marriage is good for you — PBS.org
- separated by a common language: “Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK” — separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
- For the Executive With Everything, a $230,000 Dog to Protect It — New York Times
- Image above: from the French National Library’s Visions de l’an 2000, prints from 1910 of what the world might look like in the year 2000. This image: how learning might work in the future. (Via James Fallows).