Tuesday, June 28, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN (Tuesday, June 28, 2011)
(1)- TWITTER KABOOM -- Nato uses information from Twitter to help analysts judge which sites should be targeted by commanders for bombing and missile strikes in Libya. Relevant tweets are filtered for relevance and authenticity.

(2)- THE OREO -- The contemporary Oreo stamp was introduced in 1952, and it has remained unchanged, and, in the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, “the stuff of legend,” ever since.

(3)- FRENCH BEER -- Archaeological evidence for France's oldest known beer-making operation has been found in the Provence region. The brewer used malted barley to make his beer, which might have resembled modern home brews.

(4)- ERROL MORRIS – He tends tends to be promiscuous with his enthusiasms — two of his latest preoccupations, according to his very funny Twitter stream, are Abraham Lincoln and levitating frogs — but beneath them lies a…

(5)- CESAR CHAVEZ -- To understand Chavez, you have to understand that he was grafting together two life philosophies that were, at best, an idiosyncratic pairing. One grounded in union-organizing; the other:mystical Roman Catholicism.

(6)- SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY -- One of the basic assumptions of the field is that it's not the objective environment that influences people, but their constructs of the world. You have to get inside people's heads; see the world the way they do.

(7)- PROFESSOR A.C. GRAYLING -- Doing a Grayling: your step-by-step guide to setting up a new college. With the right Oxbridge connections and lots of publicity, you too could set up your own. college.

(8)- THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING -- The first five years of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s tenure have been marked by a dangerous consolidation of power. Now, his citizens are angry and his opponents scheme. But is it too late?

(9)- FUTURE BOOK -- The future book — the digital book — is no longer an immutable brick. It’s ethereal and networked, emerging publicly in fits and starts. An artifact ‘complete’ for only the briefest of moments.

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