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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

TheBrowser daily newsletter [18 Oct 2011]

18 October 2011

 Best of the Moment

The Great Tech War Of 2012

Farhad Manjoo | Fast Company | 17 October 2011

The four American companies that have come to define 21st century information technology and entertainment are on the verge of war. Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will fight it out across many markets. The rest are dust Comments

Holes In US Legal Case Against Alleged Iran Plotter

Marcy Wheeler | Atlantic | 17 October 2011

First there was the implausibility. Now there appear to be significant holes in the legal case presented against Manssor Arbabsiar, the used-car salesman accused of plotting to blow up the Saudi ambassador in Washington Comments

A Reality Show Of Some Interest

Alec Bings | McSweeney's | 17 October 2011

Promising new column about life as a civil servant in Washington, DC. "For those of us who depend on the whim of the Oval Office to give our lives purpose, election-time tends to hand us a professional kind of schizophrenia" Comments

Political Economy Of Unhappiness

Will Davies | New Left Review | 16 October 2011

New political interest in happiness and wellbeing is bringing psychology and economics together again after a century of separation. Leading to re-evaluation of work. Used to be viewed as a curse. But unemployment is far worse Comments

Peyton's Place

John Jeremiah Sullivan | GQ | 17 October 2011

Writer and family move from one-bed apartment to big neo-colonial house in Wilmington, North Carolina. But, oops, how to pay the mortgage? The house had been used in TV shows and films before. So why not again? Fun stuff Comments

Skin Deep: The Fall Of Fur

Carol Dyhouse | History Today | 18 October 2011

On the rise and fall of the fur coat. Once the height of luxury. Skunk or polecat if you couldn't afford mink. What did for it wasn't so much animal rights as central heating and new fashions of the swinging sixties Comments

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