Category: Links

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. E.T. Phones Thailand and Picks Up the Tab for the Call — Wall Street Journal
2. Business Class: Freemium for News? — Information Architects
3. Rights Group Urges Prosecutions in Thai Violence — New York Times
4. Shakespeare and the Will to Deceive — New York Times
5. Better Than Renting Out A Windowless Room: The Blessed Distraction Of Technology — Colson Whitehead in Publishers Weekly
6. Does the Novel Have a Future? The Answer Is In This Essay! — New York Observer
7. The secret world of football’s dark arts… — Graham Poll in the Mail Online
8. 5 Myths About the ‘Information Age’ — The Chronicle of Higher Education
9. Image above: Never Forget Cassettes — Pop Art Print, from TypePosters’ shop at Etsy.

Some Thailand-related, some not.

1. Singapore’s ‘Mentor’ Seeks a Sturdy U.S. — Wall Street Journal
2. The miracle of iodine: How 10 cents and some table salt can raise IQs in the developing world — GlobalPost
3. Thailand Caught on the Thaksin Rebound — Wall Street Journal
4. Does journalism work? — JonathanStray.com
5. Peruvian Chefs Add Flavor to Quito, Ecuador — New York Times
6. What’s the Single Best Exercise? — New York Times Magazine
7. Is Sitting a Lethal Activity? — New York Times Magazine
8. Mobile Journalism Reporting Tools Guide — Reynolds Journalism Institute
9. How to Get a Real Education — Scott Adams in the Wall Street Journal
10. Just for fun: What American English sounds like to non-English speakers — YouTube video: “Prisecolinensinenciousol, a parody by Adriano Celentano for the Italian TV programme Mileluci…”
11. Video above: “Ueli Steck speed solo Eiger record,” on YouTube. (Via Kottke.)

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. On ‘Radiolab,’ the Sound of Science — New York Times (Don’t miss the multimedia piece, with sounds from the show.)
2. How One Radio Reporter Ditched His Equipment for an iPhone 4 — MediaShift
3. Former Los Angeles Laker Ike Nwankwo brings hoops to Bangkok — CNNGo Bangkok
4. Activists fight to stop dam across Mekong — AP
5. Finally passing: Assessing America’s bloodiest war, 150 years later — Economist
6. Understanding Congress’s solution to the federal deficit problem — Philip Greenspun
7. Piecing Together Wallace’s Posthumous Novel — New York Times
8. Coffee Vs. Tea Infographic Lays Out Each Drink’s Benefits Side-By-Side — Lifehacker
9. Populous Metropolis: “See how the list of the top 50 U.S. cities by population has shifted from 1950 to 2010 as more people move west and south.” — Wall Street Journal
10. Thailand’s ‘Red Shirt’ protesters mark anniversary of bloody clash with government forces — Washington Post/AP
11. Above: “SF to Paris in Two Minutes,” on YouTube. Via Gizmodo.

Some Thailand related, some not…

1. An election will not fix Thailand’s woes — Pavin Chachavalpongpun at East Asia Forum
2. The Challenges of Working Remotely — HappyCog.com
3. Lessons from Late Night — Tina Fey in the New Yorker (Subscription only. Worth seeking out and reading.)
4. How Many Americans Have a Passport? The Percentages, State by State — Grey’s Blog
5. Sordid politics in Malaysia: Hitting below the belt — The Economist
6. Airline ‘disregarded safety’ prior to Phuket crash — BBC News
7. Interview: Raul Gallego Abellan on reporting wars and how technology is changing the role of a journalist — Online video journalism blog
8. Happiness Engineering — Scott Adams
9. Cracking coaching’s final frontier — “brain centered learning” in soccer — BBC Sport
10. YouAreListeningToLosAngeles.com — ambient music mixed with LAPD radio chatter.
11. Above: USA Inc. – A Basic Summary of America’s Financial Statements. Backstory is here.

Some Thailand related, some not…

1. The Uprising in Egypt: Judgment Days — The New Yorker
2. A Short Primer on Egypt Now — american footprints
3. Egypt Over the Brink — Foreign Policy
4. A Southern Chef Doesn’t Stray Far — New York Times
5. Southeast Asia embraces China trade, but how’s the relationship? It’s complicated — Christian Science Monitor
6. Thailand: Webmaster Case Tests Limits of Free Speech — TIME
7. How ‘The Fridge’ lost his way — about William “The Refrigerator” Perry
8. John’s no nonsense mobile phone — www.johnsphones.com
9. Radiolab Presents: The Loneliness of the Goalkeeper — a must-listen for anyone who cares about soccer or radio journalism.
10. Image above: from Everything you know about fitness is a lie, in Men’s Journal.

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. Understanding Shakespeare: Towards a visual form for dramatic texts and language — www.understanding-shakespeare.com
2. 10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly — The Chronicle of Higher Education
3. Never Ending Pencil — www.yankodesign.com
4. It’s Back-to-School Season for the Water Buffalo, Too — WSJ
5. Wine: Self-Serve Filling Stations Arrive at French Supermarkets — GOOD
6. Mattel introduces new Journalism Barbie — Boing Boing
7. The implications of coloured movements — Bangkok Post
8. The Hamster Wheel: Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhere — CJR
9. Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted — The New Yorker
10. Debate Over Meaning of Standoff in Ecuador — NYT
11. What Really Happened in Ecuador: Eyewitnesses deny police kidnapped the president, and there’s no evidence a coup was in the making. — WSJ

Image above: Clouds, Birds, Moon, Venus, by Isaac Gutiérrez Pascual — Astronomy Picture of the Day

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. A Bookfuturist Manifesto — The Atlantic
2. Google Agonizes on Privacy as Ad World Vaults Ahead — WSJ
3. Citizenship From Birth Is Challenged on the Right — New York Times
4. Thailand to indict top Red Shirts for terrorism — AFP
5. Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to young writers — Kottke.org
6. Topic of Cancer — Vanity Fair
7. Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 DenverPost.com
8. WikIdioms — a “multilingual dictionary of idioms.”
9. Two ways to fulfill that creative goal you’re afraid of — Good Experience
10. Linkrights and Wrongs — The Chronicle Review
11. Thailand Willing To Review Tourism Rules To Draw More Tourists — Dow Jones
12. The Shame of the World Cup — The New York Review of Books
13. Lost in Translation — WSJ
14. American Murder Mystery — The Atlantic
15. Pete Hamill, Patriarch of Print, Goes Direct to Digital — New York Times
16. Thailand issues health warning — for black leggings — AFP

Image: Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, via The Atlantic

Some Thailand-related, some not:

Image credit: daniel n. reid

1. Interview with Claudio Sopranzetti: The politics of motorcycle taxis — New Mandala
2. Temple dispute surfaces again — Straits Times
3. US slips, China glides in Thai crisis — Asia Times Online
4. Remarkable Stop-Motion Walk Across America — PetaPixel
5. Soccer’s Growth in the U.S. Seems Steady — New York Times
6. Longtime journalist Daniel Schorr dead at age 93 — AP
7. Leaving Asia’s shade — Banyan/Economist
8. Atletico to be without star players for Bangkok game — Bangkok Post
9. Sugar trade’s sweet spot turns sour in Thailand — AP
10. The Best Magazine Articles Ever — Cool Tools

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. The Angriest Man In Television — The Atlantic
2. Bangladesh, With Low Pay, Moves In on China — New York Times
3. The Consultant Was a Spy — Washingtonian.com
4. Thailand: the prime minister and the mobile phone texts — Financial Times
5. Can Thailand’s state of emergency lead to a ‘reconciliation’? — Washington Post
6. Thai politics intrudes on the world of reality TV — AP
7. Wasps to Fight Thai Cassava Plague — New York Times/IHT