• Readings for the week of June 16, 2008

    Posted by: Daniel Lee

    Posted on: June 19th, 2008

The son who vanished [The Globe and Mail]
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080620.wmhschizophrenic21/BNStory/mentalhealth/

Sea of Trash – Pollution in the World’s Oceans [New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/magazine/22Plastics-t.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Smoking, Drinking, Writing, Womanizing, Smoking, Drinking [New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/magazine/22madmen-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin

Churchill and His Myths [The New York Review of Books]
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21410

Shrunken Sovereign: Consumerism, Globalization, and American Emptiness [World Affairs Journal]
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/2008%20-%20Spring/full-Barber.html

A War Worth Fighting [Newsweek.com]
http://www.newsweek.com/id/141501/output/print

New job fits Smitherman to a T [Toronto Star]
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/445813

Recent writing: Goats and Glen Murray [Spacing Toronto]
http://spacing.ca/wire/2008/06/16/recent-writing-goats-and-glen-murray/

How we read online [Slate Magazine]
http://www.slate.com/id/2193552/

50 Tips for Greener Living [Liberal Party of Canada]
http://www.liberal.ca/pdf/docs/50_e.pdf

The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web [New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html?_r=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Taxpayers pick up Tory tab [Toronto Star]
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/443950

What Hillary Clinton Won by Losing the Democratic Nomination [New York Magazine]
http://nymag.com/news/politics/47837/

Man Who Helped Create Daisy Ad Dies – (Obit) [New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/business/media/16cnd-schwartz.html?_r=3&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

50 Best Websites 2008 [TIME]
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1809858_1809957,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

A Reporter at Large: Fidel’s Heir [The New Yorker]
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_anderson

Record Percentage Of Americans Use Internet For Politics, Survey Finds [Wired.com]
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/record-percenta.html

The Facebook commandments [Slate Magazine]
http://www.slate.com/id/2174439/

Is Google Making Us Stupid? [The Atlantic] [Ed note: Yes!]
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

2008 Design Trends [webdesignerwall.com]
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/2008-design-trends/

VANITY FAIR Blogopticon [vanityfair.com]
http://www.vfdaily.com/culture/2008/blogopticon/index.html

How To: Visit a Secret Nuclear Bunker [Danger Room from Wired.com]
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/06/how-to-visit-a.html

American Exception – Unlike Others, U.S. Defends Freedom to Offend in Speech [New York Times]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/us/12hate.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1214244168-TRfImctfOm69nicK8H1p1Q