Chasing Dragons

Weekend Reading Roundup v. 142

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'The Saturday Interview: Stuart Hall' by Zoe Williams at guardian.co.uk

• 'A Condition for Pilots: 'Existential' Conflict' by Farah Stockman at boston.com

• 'Sway: Wikileaks, Universities and Soft Power' by David Mathews at timeshighereducation.co.uk

• 'The Maps We Wandered into as Kids' by Victoria Johnson at theawl.com

Have a good weekend.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 141

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Contributing to Public Goods: My 20 Rules for Refereeing' by Marc F. Bellemare at marcbellemare.com

• 'The Difference Between Online Knowledge and Truly Open Knowledge' by C.W. Anderson at theatlantic.com

• 'Obama Terror Drones: CIA Tactics in Pakistan Include Targeting Rescuers and Funerals' by Chris Woods and Christina Lamb at thebureauinvestigates.com

• 'Colbert v. The Court' by Dahlia Lithwick at slate.com

• 'When Art and Politics Collided in LA' by Jon Wiener at latimes.com

• 'The Liberal Arts as Guideposts in the 21st Century' by Nannerl O. Keohane at chronicle.com

Have a good weekend.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 140

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries' by the Association of Research Libraries at www.arl.org

• '1066 and All That by Richard J. Evans at newstatesmen.com

• 'Critical Theory: Useful Distinction or Unconscious Smugness?' by PJ Ray at cyborgology

• 'The Secret to Going Viral: It's All About Culture' by Jared Keller at theatlantic.com

Peace.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 139

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare' by Nick Turse at guernicamag.com

• 'Five Day Gratification' by Wright Thompson at cricinfo.com (on the rhythms of test cricket in a world where speed rules)

• 'Lazy Higher Ed Journalism' by Melonie Fullick at insidehighered.com

• 'Models of Representation in Carl Schmitt' by Charles Kollmer at telospress.com

• 'The Politics of the Sweater Vest' by Vanessa Friedman at ft.com

• 'Special Forces Get Social in New Psychological Operation Plan' by Noel Shachtman at dangerroom

Enjoy!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 138

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Scholarly Reflections on Blogging: Once a Tortoise, Never a Hare' by Andrea Doucet at chronicle.com

• 'Sci-Fi Writer William Gibson on his I-Pad' by Barbara Chai at wsj.com

• 'Treasure Mapped: Using Satellite Imagery to Track the Developmental Effects of Somali Piracy' by Anja Shortland at humansecuritygateway.com

• 'Doomsday Clock Moves to Five Minutes to Midnight' by the Science and Security Board, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists at thebulletin.org

• 'Examining the Relationship Between Immigration and Unemployment Using National Insurance Number Registration Data' by Paolo Lucchino, Chiara Rosazza Bondibene, and Jonathan Portes at niesr.ac.uk

• 'Why the Glock Became America's Handgun' by Erin McCarthy at popularmechanics.com

Have a good weekend.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 137

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising' by the Directorate for Employment, Labour, and Social Affairs at oecd.org

• 'How Companies Avoid Tax--A Quick Summary in 8,000 Words'  by Richard Murphy at www.taxresearch.org

• 'Behind the Rise of the Great Powers' by Liu Xiaobo (translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke) at guernicamag.com

• 'Vestige(s) of Empire' by James Biber at designobserver.com

• 'Do "Prestigious" Journals Make Academics Lazy? An Unlikely Parallel with the Art World' by Mark Carrigan at markcarrigan.net

• 'Universities Gone Wild: Big Money, Big Sports, and Scandalous Abuse at Penn State' by  Henry Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux at truth-out.org

Have a good weekend.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 136

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'The Social Utility of Art and Scholarship' by Clare O'Farrell at refractedinput

• 'Top 50 Multimedia Packages of 2011' by Tracy Boyer Clark at innovativeinteractivity.com

• 'What It Takes to Open a Bar in Baghdad' by Joshuah Bearman at atlantic.com (apparantly being a mercenary is a good start...)

• 'Stealth Tech, Facebook Revolutions, Shadow Wars: The Most Dangerous Year Ever' by Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman at dangerroom

• 'Photographs of the Year 2011' by Homa Khaleeli, Rob Fearn, Amy Fleming, Sarah Phillips, and Paula Cocozza at guardian.co.uk

• 'The Struggle for the Open Web: Putting "Piracy" In Perspective' by David Campbell at david-campbell.org

• 'I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue is Dropping' by Roger Ebert at rogerebert.com (hint, it's not piracy...)

Happy New Year!

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Weekend Reading v. 135

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Airforce Drone Operators Report High Levels of Stress' by Elisabeth Bumiller at nytimes.com

• 'Against All Odds: How "Crazy" Kim Jung Il Outfoxed the World' by Howard W. French at atlantic.com

• 'Social Media in the 16th Century: How Luther Went Viral' at economist.com

• 'Smoke Screen' by Charles C. Mann at vanityfair.com

Peace on earth and goodwill to all humans.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 134

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'How Ayn Rand Seduced Generations of Young Men and Helped to Make the US Into A Selfish, Greedy Nation' by Bruce E. Levine at alternet.org (Rand deserves to be pilloried for her philosophy and writing but would the same elements of this particular critique be deployed if she had been a man?)

• 'If I Were the Middle Class White Guy Gene Marks' by Kelly Virella at dominionofnewyork.com

• 'Saul Leiter and the Typographic Fragment' by Rick Poynor at designobserver.com

• 'Raising the Pension Age Will Be a Public Health Disaster' by Steve Griffiths at leftfootforward.org

Peace.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 133

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'After David Cameron's EU Treaty Veto: The Seven Key Questions Britain Must Face' by Toby Helm, Daniel Boffey, Heather Stewart, and Peter Beaumont at guardian.co.uk

• 'We're Blind to Our Blindness. We have Very Little Idea of How Little We Know. We're not Designed to' by Daniel Kahneman at independent.co.uk

• 'Why the Native American Fashion Trend is Pissing Off Real Native Americans' by Lisa Hix at collectorsweekly.com (an excellent article let down by a really problematic title)

• 'Visualizing Everything that Facebook Knows About You' at infosthetics.com

• 'Dear Reviewers, A Word?' by Brian C. Rathbun at duckofminerva

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