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  1. The Uprising in Egypt: Judgment DaysThe New Yorker
  2. A Short Primer on Egypt Now — american footprints
  3. Egypt Over the BrinkForeign Policy
  4. A Southern Chef Doesn’t Stray FarNew York Times
  5. Southeast Asia embraces China trade, but how’s the relationship? It’s complicatedChristian Science Monitor
  6. Thailand: Webmaster Case Tests Limits of Free SpeechTIME
  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.
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11 links

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  1. The best documentaries of 2010 — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (Thanks to A for the link)
  2. Haïkuleaks — tag line: “Cable is poetry: 65 haikus in 1830 cables”
  3. Citywalk: A Daylong Stroll in BangkokWall Street Journal
  4. Thailand’s antigovernment red shirts gear up for electionsThe Christian Science Monitor
  5. The Afterlife of David Foster WallaceThe Chronicle Review
  6. 100 football blogs to follow in 2011The Guardian (thanks to D for the link). Side note: not included in the list, but should be (for goalkeeping nerds only): Ministry of Glove
  7. Thailand again sullies its human rights record — Amnesty International’s Benjamin Zawacki in the Bangkok Post
  8. Thailand’s Misrule by Law — Thitinan Pongsudhirak in the Wall Street Journal
  9. Gone With the Myths — author Edward Ball, writing in the New York Times, on revisionism and the Southern secession.
  10. Oxford study: What’s the future of foreign reporting? — Nieman Journalism Lab
  11. Video: Extreme Climbing to top of 1768 ft radio tower — Not recommended for those who are scared of heights.

Video above: Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes.

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9 Links

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  1. Thai “yellow shirts” rally to block charter reforms — Reuters
  2. Is this a portrait of a human 50 million years from now? — io9
  3. Remote Bhutan Aims to Draw Investors to the HimalayasWall Street Journal
  4. Experts try to convey danger of Indonesian volcano — The AP
  5. Thailand Confronts Its Issues With AbortionNew York Times
  6. Radio reporter covers D.C. with an iPhone only — PoynterOnline
  7. Digital Keys for Unlocking the Humanities’ RichesNew York Times
  8. Picture Cook — visual recipes
  9. How to Write a Great NovelWall Street Journal

Image above: From Hunter Davies’s book Postcards from the Edge of Football: A Social History of a British Game, via The Run of Play.

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11 links

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  1. Pressure cooking — Austin Bush on David Thompson and the kerfuffle surrounding foreigners cooking Thai food. Related…
  2. …BBC News: Thai restaurants spark food fight
  3. Distance Runners Are a Paradox for InsurersNew York Times
  4. Journalism of tomorrow: More info, less facts — Journalism and the World
  5. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-TextbooksThe Chronicle of Higher Education
  6. The Parking Lot Movie — www.theparkinglotmovie.com — entertaining new documentary about parking lot attendants in Charlottesville, Virginia
  7. A Poet’s Return Home to Thailand’s Violent SouthNew York Times
  8. The Future of Public Transport in Bangkok — Sustainable Cities Collective
  9. This Is Not a Blog Post: Blogs and Web magazines are looking more and more alike. What’s the difference? — Slate
  10. The Southeast Asian Arms Race — Asia Unbound/Council on Foreign Relations
  11. The Phenomenal ‘Chinese Professor’ Ad — James Fallows/The Atlantic

Image above: The World in Words.

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11 Links

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Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. Understanding Shakespeare: Towards a visual form for dramatic texts and languagewww.understanding-shakespeare.com
  2. 10 Tips on How to Write Less BadlyThe Chronicle of Higher Education
  3. Never Ending Pencilwww.yankodesign.com
  4. It’s Back-to-School Season for the Water Buffalo, TooWSJ
  5. Wine: Self-Serve Filling Stations Arrive at French Supermarkets — GOOD
  6. Mattel introduces new Journalism Barbie — Boing Boing
  7. The implications of coloured movementsBangkok Post
  8. The Hamster Wheel: Why running as fast as we can is getting us nowhereCJR
  9. Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweetedThe New Yorker
  10. Debate Over Meaning of Standoff in EcuadorNYT
  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

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Misc.

11 links

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Some Thailand-related, some not:

  1. Seven questions for Jay RosenThe Economist
  2. Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual GirlfriendsWSJ
  3. For Blind Soccer Stars, Field of Vision Is Overrated — Wired.com
  4. Support for Same-Sex Marriage, State by StateNYT
  5. Colorizing classic statues returns them to antiquity — HarvardScience
  6. Why good goalkeepers are worth their weight in goal — BBC Sport
  7. In Scarred Land, a Haven for Victims of Acid BurnsNYT
  8. A Conversation with Times of India Diplomatic Editor Indrani Bagchi — In Asia/The Asia Foundation
  9. The Empty ChamberThe New Yorker
  10. Russia in color, a century ago — The Big Picture
  11. Tilt-Shift Bangkoktiltshiftbangkok.blogspot.com

Image: Petchburi Road, via TSB.

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16 Links

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  1. A Bookfuturist ManifestoThe Atlantic
  2. Google Agonizes on Privacy as Ad World Vaults AheadWSJ
  3. Citizenship From Birth Is Challenged on the RightNew 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 CancerVanity 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 WrongsThe Chronicle Review
  11. Thailand Willing To Review Tourism Rules To Draw More Tourists — Dow Jones
  12. The Shame of the World CupThe New York Review of Books
  13. Lost in TranslationWSJ
  14. American Murder MysteryThe Atlantic
  15. Pete Hamill, Patriarch of Print, Goes Direct to DigitalNew York Times
  16. Thailand issues health warning — for black leggings — AFP

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

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10 links

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Image credit: daniel n. reid

  1. Interview with Claudio Sopranzetti: The politics of motorcycle taxis — New Mandala
  2. Temple dispute surfaces againStraits 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 SteadyNew 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 gameBangkok Post
  9. Sugar trade’s sweet spot turns sour in Thailand — AP
  10. The Best Magazine Articles Ever — Cool Tools
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    7 Links

    Some Thailand-related, some not:

    1. The Angriest Man In TelevisionThe Atlantic
    2. Bangladesh, With Low Pay, Moves In on ChinaNew York Times
    3. The Consultant Was a Spy — Washingtonian.com
    4. Thailand: the prime minister and the mobile phone textsFinancial 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 PlagueNew York Times/IHT
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    Six links

    Six links that have caught my eye of late:

    1. You Are Not So Smart — “A celebration of self-delusion.”
    2. Bangkok parties on surface, but unease hides below — AP
    3. Too Many Lenses, Too Few Eyes — the NYT‘s Lens blog
    4. David Foster Wallace — commencement speech at Kenyon University, 2005 — web.archive.org
    5. Biography of Usain Bolt, MutantEsquire
    6. “Target Anxiety: the Penalty Shootout Reconsidered” by FredorrarciNorman Einstein’s