This Week's Top Stories

Hi David, Hope you're having a great weekend :) As requested, these are this week's top stories from The Next Web: Did Apple redefine photography with the iPhone? How much does Facebook know about your life? This video might scare you Sweden lets citizens take over its official Twitter account. This is either genius or insanity. Louis CK declares $5 standup special a success, sells 110k copies for $200k profit in 3 days 8 Ways the iPhone brings us to different worlds with augmented reality Meet the 16-year-old whose Summly app notched up 17k downloads in 4 days Woah. Jerry Seinfeld perfectly explained the success of Facebook in 1992! This geek uses his crazy Lego computer to help cure cancer, treat malaria and more By the way we've got some nifty little things you might not have tried... Have you played with our Mac app or our iPhone app? And we've got a neat free file sharing tool! More coming though, stay tuned :) Cheers! The Next Web  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

Top Stories from the last 24 hours

Hi David, These are the top stories from The Next Web over the last 24 hours. Meet the 16-year-old whose Summly app notched up 17k downloads in 4 days Yokto brings its video-collation tool to Facebook, launches browser bookmarklet too The Steady Stand is the absolute best way to get top-down photos with your smartphone Groupon beefing up staff in Thailand ahead of likely 2012 launch Startup Weekend plans to expand its "No talk, all action" events in 2012 [Video] Your Guide to Buying Wine Online By the way we've got some nifty little things you might not have tried... Have you played with our Mac app or our iPhone app? And we've got a neat free file sharing tool! More coming though, stay tuned :) Cheers! The Next Web  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

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The Browser daily newsletter [17 Dec 2011]

Daily Newsletter       17 December 2011  Best of the Moment Christopher Hitchens: 'The Consummate Writer, The Brilliant Friend' Ian McEwan | Guardian | 16 December 2011 Wonderful, touching piece from McEwan remembering last weeks of his great friend. A writer, to the last: "His head would droop, his eyes close, then with superhuman effort he would drag himself awake to type another line" Comments How National Identities Are Really Formed Hussein Ibish | Ibishblog | 14 December 2011 Spiky, enjoyable analysis that takes as its starting point Newt Gingrich's recent remarks about Palestinians being "an invented people". They're no more or less "invented" than any other modern national identity Comments Sing Of The New Invasion Slavoj Zizek | New Statesman | 12 December 2011 "Fiennes's Coriolanus is like the eyes of God or a saint in an Orthodox icon: Without changing a word in Shakespeare's play, the film looks squarely at our predicament today, offering us the figure of the radical freedom fighter" Comments A Death Of One's Own Peter Singer | Project Syndicate | 16 December 2011 "In the US, you can buy a gun and put a bullet through your brain without breaking any laws." But if you ask your doctor to shoot you, or to kill you by some other means, you are party to a crime. What sense does that make? Comments If You Can’t Notice A Gorilla In Plain Sight, How Can You Testify As A Witness? Daniel Simons | The Crux | 14 December 2011 Interesting post on limits of our perception, awareness. As notorious "gorilla test" shows, we are far less likely to notice unexpected events than we presume. Which could have severe consequences, when it comes to matters of law Comments Hitch Jane Mayer | New Yorker | 16 December 2011 Brief but brilliant. A fabulous vignette. The scene: An exclusive, allegedly anti-Semitic country club in Palm Beach. Christopher Hitchens is shown to a table in the middle of the dining room... Comments  FiveBooks Interview Lev Grossman on Fantasy We're living through a golden age for fantasy fiction, says the author of The Magicians. He tells us what makes for a good fantasy novel, and who's staking out the future not just of fantasy but of fiction itself  Featured Special Report Christopher Hitchens Remembering the superlative essayist, polemicist and debater  Reader Recommendations @farnamstreet How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders And how the Pentagon later turned on them  t.co/bNCgQchA  #longreads #browsings  Book of the Day The End of the Revolution by Wang Hui Rana Mitter says: “To get something of the pulse of thinking in modern China a century after the 1911 revolution, Wang Hui is a good starting point”  Video of the Day Box Like A Boss How to pack your Christmas presents. A tutorial  Quote of the Day John Gray, on history "History is a solvent of illusions" | Homepage | Mobile Apps | RSS Feeds | Twitter | Facebook | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | Having trouble reading this email? View it in your browser. You are receiving this email because you signed up for the Best of the Moment newsletter on thebrowser.com. Click here to unsubscribe The Browser Ltd, 106 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 6PF

Box Office Report: 'Sherlock,' 'Chipmunks' Lead Another Scrooge Weekend

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December 17, 2011 Box Office Report: 'Sherlock Holmes,' 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' Lead Another Scrooge Weekend "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" bucks the downturn, doing strong business in IMAX sneaks in advance of its Dec. 21 launch. More news: Top Stories | Movies | TV | Music | Tech | Style | The Business | Awards

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Cheat Sheet - Newt Has Peaked

Today: Typhoon Strikes Philippines, Obama Defers to States on Health Care, Troops Charge at Egypt Protesters December 17, 2011 ANYONE'S GAME 1. Newt Has Peaked Get ready for a train wreck out of Iowa. The Daily Beast's Mark McKinnon and George Caudill say Newt Gingrich is starting to lose steam, Ron Paul is surging, and it's showtime for Jon Huntsman. Iowa won't be the crystal ball that predicts the clear winner of the GOP presidential nominee—rather, the verdict is likely to be muddled coming out of the nation's first caucuses, and could even result in a five-way tie. Read it at The Daily Beast DISASTER 2. Typhoon Strikes Philippines Landslides and flash floods in the Philippines caused by a typhoon have killed more than 250 people and left almost 400 people missing. Typhoon Washi hit the island of Mindanao on Friday night, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes. Most of the missing are from a coastal village where houses were swept into the sea while people slept. The Philippine social-welfare department estimates that about 100,000 people have been displaced. Read it at Reuters CHANGING COURSE 3. Obama Defers to States on Health Care In an attempt to deflect one of the main Republican lines of attack on the health-care-reform program, President Obama announced that the new law will not set standard health benefits that insurers must provide. Instead, states can specify their own benefits by picking an existing health-care plan as a benchmark, and requiring all other insurers provide benefits of the same or greater value. Under this plan, the program will resemble the regional differences in state Medicaid programs. Read it at The New York Times UNREST 4. Troops Charge at Egypt Protesters Things are getting ugly in Egypt, where soldiers baton-charged protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, beating them and setting their tents on fire. This came a day after deadly street clashes in the city killed eight people and wounded more than 300, following the country's second round of voting. Both Islamist and liberal politicians criticized the Army's handling of the protests. Read it at Associated Press DIPLOMACY 5. Leon Panetta Visits Libya The new Libyan government finally has some money to spend, now that the United Nations has lifted sanctions on its central bank. The move unfreezes tens of billions of dollars in assets. Meanwhile, Leon Panetta is in Tripoli to meet with the new government—it's the first ever visit by a U.S. defense secretary. He'll meet with Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib and Defense Minister Osama al-Juwali, as well as visit the graveyard of 13 U.S. sailors killed in a raid on a pirate ship in Tripoli's harbor in 1804. Read it at BBC REPORTAGE Hitchens's Greatest Journalism The Daily Beast picks highlights from Hitchens's prolific career. OCCUPY Desmond Tutu Backs Protesters Says Trinity Wall Street church should help them. ROUGH START Zynga Shares Tumble First day after IPO filed. JUSTICE Afghan Woman Won't Wed Rapist Karzai says she can marry whomever she wants. SPLITSVILLE Kobe Bryant's Wife Files for Divorce Allegedly had enough of his cheating. GET The Cheat Sheet A speedy, smart summary of news and must-reads from across the Web. You'll love the featured original stories on politics, entertainment, and more from The Daily Beast's diverse group of contributors. GET The Yes List Weekly cultural recommendations from The Daily Beast. Christopher Hitchens Is Hailed by Stephen Fry as a Man of Style and Wit by Stephen Fry U.S. Turns Over Terrorism Suspect Ali Musa Daqduq to Iraq by Eli Lake 10 Common and Uncommon Causes of Death, From Smoking to Serial Killers by The Daily Beast

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