Tag: Links

1. The eye of the Buddha: How Myanmar is moving ever closer into China’s orbit — The Economist‘s review of Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia, by Thant Myint-U.
2. Interview: Robert Gottlieb, The Art of Editing No. 1 — The Paris Review, Fall 1994
3. Scientists Crack The Physics Of Coffee Rings — NPR
4. For Asian Soccer Stars, Swan Songs Back Home Hold Little Appeal — AP
5. Overdone: Why are restaurant websites so horrifically bad? — Slate
6. The Carbohydrate Hypothesis of Obesity: a Critical Examination — Stephan Guyenet at Whole Health Source
7. The Lost Century: The ideas that sent Latin America down the path of poverty and political instability — Wall Street Journal review of Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America, by Enrique Krauze.
8. Image above: From Andy Ricker takes Next’s tour of Thailand: A night at Grant Achatz’s restaurant with America’s preeminent Thai chef — Time Out Chicago.

1. Inside North Korea — Remarkable photos from the AP at The Atlantic‘s In Focus blog.
2. How to Beat the High Costs of Dialing Abroad — New York Times
3. Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in Abbottabad — The New Yorker.
4. Advanced Style blog: “Proof from the wise and silver haired set that personal style advances with age” — advancedstyle.blogspot.com
5. The Philadelphian Dialect is Punk Rock — Val Systems
6. The new structure of stories: a reading list — Jonathan Stray
7. Shop Class or French? A Tale of Two Paths — The Chronicle of Higher Education
8. Ten Things I Have Learned, by Milton Glaser — www.miltonglaser.com
9. Video embedded above, via YouTube: “Behind The Sounds: Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” by the Beach Boys (Via Open Culture).

Some Thailand-related, some not:

1. The Foxification of news: In the internet age, transparency may count for more than objectivity — The Economist
2. ‘Page One’ Excerpt: How The New York Times learned to stop worrying and love the blog — Poynter.org
3. Byliner: “Discover & discuss great reads by great writers.” — Byliner.com
4. What’s Scrabble When You Can Play Novelist? — New York Times
5. The mother of all tail risks: A US technical default would convulse markets. Nothing else is certain — The Economist
6. Survival Thai: “Learn Thai the easy way with signs in the street” — www.survivalthai.com
7. 5 Voyeuristic, Cross-Disciplinary Peeks Inside Great Creators’ Notebooks — brain pickings
8. Healthfully ever after, or why marriage is good for you — PBS.org
9. separated by a common language: “Observations on British and American English by an American linguist in the UK” — separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
10. For the Executive With Everything, a $230,000 Dog to Protect It — New York Times
11. 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).

Some Thailand related, some not…

1. Q+A-How will Thailand’s election affect listed companies? — Reuters
2. After 40 Years, the Complete Pentagon Papers — New York Times
3. North Korea defectors take to the “Underground Railroad” — GlobalPost
4. Suvarnabhumi Airport Time Lapse — Thailand.TV
5. Geeks at the Beach: 9 intriguing summer reads (and a video) about technology’s turning society upside down — Chronicle of Higher Education
6. Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship — Nieman Journalism Lab
7. Regrets of the Dying — Inspiration and Chai
8. ExoVault — remarkable iPhone cases
9. Video above, on YouTube: Tyler Cowen on “The Great Stagnation”

Some Thailand related, some not…

1. Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism — The Atlantic
2. El Bulli Is the Greatest Restaurant in the World — New York Times
3. Is it possible to pirate-proof a yacht? — BBC News
4. A Year at War: The Chaos of War, Up Close — New York Times
5. Action figures of “four global revolutionaries” — couvertureandthegarbstore.com
6. The Catalan kings: The management secrets of Barcelona Football Club — The Economist
7. Cut This Story! Newspaper articles are too long — The Atlantic
8. Area 51 ‘Uncensored’: Was It UFOs Or The USSR? — NPR
9. Video embedded above: “Hey You! What Song are you Listening to?” on YouTube

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.