Tag: Links

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.”

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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!”

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1. The Brain Is Not Computable — MIT Technology Review
2. Can a President Use Drones Against Journalists? — The New Yorker
3. Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us — TIME
4. The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food — The New York Times Magazine
5. Fuling, China: Return to River Town — National Geographic
6. Pad Thai — The Morning News
7. With campaign, Mark Sanford goes from Appalachian Trail to comeback trail — The Washington Post
8. Sriracha Hot Sauce Catches Fire, Yet ‘There’s Only One Rooster’ — Bloomberg Businessweek
9. Cost of Dropping Citizenship Keeps U.S. Earners From Exit — Bloomberg
10. Thailand’s stalemate and uneasy accommodation — Bangkok Post
11. Soccer’s New Match-Fixing Scandal: How #*%!ed is the beautiful game? — Grantland
12. What Are Dogs Saying When They Bark? — Scientific American
13. Myanmar’s SEA Games: Let’s play chinlone! — The Economist
14. Will Bernard Lagat Live Forever? — The New Yorker
15. Image above: From The Silent City: Digitally Assembled Futuristic Megalopolises by Yang Yongliang. Via the Galerie Paris-Beijing site (see here, here, and here).

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1. It’s official: Austerity Economics Doesn’t Work — John Cassidy in the The New Yorker
2. The Case for Drinking as Much Coffee as You Like — The Atlantic
3. Dear Journalists at Vice and Elsewhere, Here Are Some Simple Ways Not To Get Your Source Arrested — Forbes
4. The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time — Rolling Stone
5. How do you pack your bag for a seven-year, 22,000-mile international reporting assignment? — Nieman Journalism Lab
6. The enduring Apple TV Fantasy — Monday Note
7. Gertler Earns Billions as Mine Deals Fail to Enrich Congo — Bloomberg Markets Magazine
8. The impossibility of tablet-native journalism — Felix Salmon
9. Google’s Lost Social Network — BuzzFeed FWD
10. Thai Tycoons Top Dealmakers With Record Spending — Bloomberg
11. David Chase Doesn’t Care About the Russian — Slate
12. Syria Deeply — An “independent digital media project led by journalists and technologists, exploring a new model of storytelling around a global crisis.”
13. Retronaut — “The past is a foreign country. This is your passport.” (Via @fergle.)
14. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Call Me Maybe – Harvard Economics Department.”

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1. Obama to Visit Myanmar as Part of First Postelection Overseas Trip to Asia — New York Times
2. Laos Dam Kicks Off Controversial Mekong Plans — Wall Street Journal
3. Pardoned Thai-American speaks to the press on lese majeste — Bangkok Pundit
4. Thai-American ‘wins election’ — Bangkok Post on Tammy Duckworth
5. International reporting in the age of participatory media (PDF) — Ethan Zuckerman, Dædalus, Spring 2010
6. High Ambition and Visions of Andean Haute Cuisine — New York Times
7. On the Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor — McSweeneys.net
8. Image above: Bloomberg Businessweek Nov. 12-18 cover. Special report: “The Next Four Years.”

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Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. The Worst Marriage in Georgetown — The New York Times Magazine
2. Clinton Visit Puts Spotlight on South China Sea — The Wall Street Journal
3. Asean Reaps Rewards As Clinton Counters China — Bloomberg
4. Wary Neighbors Turn Into Partners in a Quickly Developing Southeast Asia — The New York Times
5. Transfer of Value — Monday Note
6. Englands of the Mind: The sound. The fury. The mediocrity. — Grantland
7. A Bit of Rural Thailand Amid Bustling Bangkok — The New York Times
8. We’re getting wildly differing assessments — SCOTUSblog
9. The Kingpins: The fight for Guadalajara — The New Yorker
10. Video embedded above and on Vimeo here: “The Higgs Boson Explained” (Via A).

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Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. Special Report: Plight of Muslim minority threatens Myanmar Spring — Reuters
2. Thai Youth Seek a Fortune Away From the Farm — The New York Times
3. India’s Historic Outreach to Myanmar — The Atlantic/Asia Society
4. Michio Kaku: The Cheapest Way to Terraform Mars — The Big Think/YouTube
5. Moderation as the Sweet Spot for Exercise — The New York Times/Well blog
6. Thai Parliament Puts Off Two Sensitive Debates — The Wall Street Journal
7. Why We Don’t Believe in Science — The New Yorker
8. South Carolina’s Pension Push Into High-Octane Investments — The New York Times
9. Robert Carlock walks us through highlights from 30 Rock’s six seasons so far — The A.V. Club
10. The 22 rules of storytelling, according to Pixar — Emma Coats/io9
11. Expatriates Find an Affordable Welcome in Ecuador — The New York Times
12. 14 Must-Know Tips & Tricks for Mac OS X — OSXDaily
13. Part of this world, part of another — Letters of Note: Gene Wilder on his “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” entrance.
14. Video embedded above and on YouTube here: “Un enfant de 5 ans remplaçant au foot.”

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