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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [16 May 2012]

16 May 2012

 Best of the Moment

On Censorship

Salman Rushdie | New Yorker | 15 May 2012

Superb short essay in favour of boat-rocking. "Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes." This is where great art comes from. If we believe in liberty, we must celebrate it Comments

Economic Case For Same-Sex Marriage

Betsey Stevenson & Justin Wolfers | Bloomberg | 15 May 2012

"The joining of husband and wife yields a more productive firm, because it allows one spouse to specialise in earning income from working in the market, while the other specialises in the domestic sphere." But times change Comments

Imagining Myself In Palestine

Randa Jarrar | Guernica | 14 May 2012

American citizen of Palestinian descent flies to Israel, aiming to visit sister in West Bank. On landing in Tel Aviv she faces immigration. Despite best preparations, it doesn't go well. Soon she's sent to the "Arab room" Comments

How Yahoo Killed Flickr And Lost The Internet

Mat Honan | Gizmodo | 15 May 2012

"This is the story of a wonderful idea. Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the Internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr." A revolutionary photo sharing service, destroyed by Yahoo Comments

A Splash Of Marilyn

Lawrence Schiller | Vanity Fair | 8 May 2012

Photographing Marilyn Monroe. Lawrence Schiller did it, to great effect. His account of working with the flirtatious, calculating star has shades of a coming-of-age story and makes for surprisingly compulsive reading Comments

My Daughter's Favorite Sport

Joe Posnanski | Joe Blogs | 15 May 2012

Sportswriter's daughter had never shown much interest in his area of expertise. Then, unaccountably, she developed an interest in NASCAR, one of the few sports her father knew virtually nothing about. Eh? Classic, charming Posnanski Comments

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