Category: Links

1. How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft — Jim Stewart at the NYT
2. The Not-So-Crazy Plan to Build an Ice-Skating Highway Through Edmonton — Wired
3. Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution — Michael Casey and Paul Vigna at The WSJ
4. How to approach your own career like an entrepreneur — Erika Fry at Fortune
5. The Jet Set Life of Karl Lagerfeld’s Favorite Male Model — for Now — The NYT Magazine
6. Thaksin times: Thailand’s coup-makers punish two former prime ministers — The Economist
7. A Progress Report on Jeff Bezos Transforming the Washington Post — PBS MediaShift
8. Ecuador Takes a $3.8m Punt on the Super Bowl — WSJ Frontiers
9. Being There: Ambient Loops from Famous Sci-Fi TV and Movies — Red Bull Music Academy
10. Embedded above, on YouTube here, and related to link number nine: “Blade Runner Ambient Deckard’s Apartment Sound for 12 Hours”
    

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)

It took me an insanely long time to realize that these were in fact not tiny brontosauruses pic.twitter.com/YBpLdixWSH

— Science Cat (@DrScienceCat) October 8, 2014

1. The Kitchen Network: America’s underground Chinese restaurant workers — The New Yorker
2. Finding the Dinosaur: A ‘Step Brothers’ Appreciation — Rolling Stone
3. You Call This Thai Food? The Robotic Taster Will Be the Judge — The New York Times
4. 15 Lessons from 15 Years of Blogging — Anil Dash
5. The Woman Who Walked 10,000 Miles (No Exaggeration) in Three Years — The New York Times Magazine
6. Which China expert are you? — China Daily Show
7. Embedded above: Science Cat on Twitter.

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)

1. Goat Parkour Is the Best Evidence Yet That Goats Are the New Cats — Slate
2. The Disruption Machine: What the gospel of innovation gets wrong — Jill Lepore at The New Yorker
3. Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of ‘Disruptive Innovation’ — BloombergBusinessweek
4. An Island-Hopping Southern Seafood Crawl — WSJ
5. The Case for Reparations — Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic
6. What’s wrong with Soccernomics? — Daniel Altman
7. The internet’s biggest companies are breaking themselves into small pieces — Quartz
8. Print still matters, even if some would like to believe it shouldn’t — Ken Doctor at Nieman Journalism Lab
9. Amazon’s Whale Strategy — Stratechery
10. Video embedded above and on Vine here: “That ball!” — Robin van Persie’s goal for the Netherlands against Spain, via a pass from Daley Blind.

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)

1. Landfill excavation unearths years of crushed Atari treasure — Ars Technica
2. Eating Alone by Design: An Entire Restaurant With Tables for One — BloombergBusinessweek
3. Dronies! — Kottke.org
4. In Deep: The dark and dangerous world of extreme cavers — The New Yorker
5. Why We’re in a New Guidled Age — Paul Krugman on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century — The New York Review of Books
6. How some journalists are using anonymous secret-sharing apps — Nieman Journalism Lab
7. Ephemeral Apps — Schneier on Security
8. Why futurologists are always wrong – and why we should be sceptical of techno-utopians — NewStatesman
9. The Daily Routines of Geniuses — Harvard Business Review
10. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “A tour of the British Isles in accents.”

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. Mike Tyson Explores Kierkegaard — The Wall Street Journal
2. How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk — New York Times dialect map
3. As New Services Track Habits, the E-Books Are Reading You — The New York Times
4. Professional soccer clubs are great entertainment—and terrible investments — Quartz
5. Asia Foundation survey – Part 1: Who are the Thai protesters? — Bangkok Pundit
6. The blog is dead, long live the blog — by Jason Kottke; more here
7. Earth Wind Map — “a visualization of global weather conditions”
8. Who has the hardest World Cup 2014 draw? — The Guardian
9. Things fitting perfectly into other things — http://thingsfittingperfectlyintothings.tumblr.com
10. If Premier League Team Names Were Based On Their Logos — BuzzFeed
11. A Family of Anchormen — Ron Burgundy at NewYorker.com
12. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “David Thibault – Elvis – Blue Christmas.”

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. Indian Miss America resonates as symbol of change — The AP
2. The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done — Kottke.org
3. The Twitter of Tomorrow — NewYorker.com
4. Twitter Co-Founder Evan Williams Lays Out His Plan For The Future Of Media — TechCrunch
5. Bribespot: Fighting Corruption in Thailand One Click at a Time — VOA
6. A Most Dangerous Journey: The Full Story — WSJ/Southeast Asia Real Time
7. Instapaper on the Kindle Paperwhite — David Smith
8. How Alan Hansen and Match of the Day slipped from hip to horrible — The Guardian
9. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Fantasista animation – Maradona vs England” (Via)

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)

1. Cambodia’s Sam Rainsy Returns to Cheers Before Vote — Bloomberg
2. Thailand riveted by tale of jet-setting, millionaire monk accused of rape and fraud — AP
3. Bangkok construction boom faces resistance — Al Jazeera
4. Fan Runs Arsenal to Video Hit in Vietnam — Wall Street Journal/Southeast Asia Real Time
5. How Clothes Should Fit — HowClothesShouldFit.com
6. J.K. Rowling and the Chamber of Literary Fame — Bloomberg
7. Photo above, via Michael Beschloss on Twitter: “Here is Neil Armstrong back in lunar module after his moonwalk this day 1969…”

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)

1. My Gucci Addiction — GQ
2. Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead? — The New York Times Magazine
3. Economists See No Crisis With U.S. Debt as Economy Gains — Bloomberg
4. You’re Distracted. This Professor Can Help. — The Chronicle of Higher Education
5. Eight Reasons Business Travelers Shouldn’t Work on Planes — BloombergBusinessweek
6. An Amazon Problem: The Book Is Dead, Long Live the Book — Spiegel Online
7. The Lost Tribes of the Amazon — Smithsonian
8. Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects — Gigaom
9. Castle, Sweet Castle — The Wall Street Journal
10. Robbie Rogers: why coming out as gay meant I had to leave football — The Guardian
11. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Medieval helpdesk with English subtitles.”

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)

1. The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble — The New York Times Magazine
2. Noma’s Co-Owner Thinks Bolivian Food Is the Next Big Thing — Bloomberg Markets
3. In Public Eye, Shining Star of Myanmar Loses Luster — The New York Times
4. A Friendly Conversation with a Banker — The Billfold
5. The problem with online freelance journalism — Felix Salmon/Reuters
6. Revenge of the sources — Ezra Klein/The Washington Post
7. What Saved the Dow? Sensible Economic Policies — John Cassidy/The New Yorker
8. Thailand’s illegal immigrants: A deadly cocktail — The Economist
9. Pad Thai — The Morning News
10. Missing Nutella, Part 2: Columbia Puts Consumption Far Below Report — The New York Times‘s City Room blog
11. China’s ‘farmscrapers’ are highrises that will generate their own food — io9
12. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Space Glider – FPV to Space and Back!”

(Previous link round-ups are available via the links tag.)