From the Archives: 10/30/2013 Edition

The most honored photograph

http://petapixel.com/2013/10/29/honored-photograph/

 

The President wants you to get rich on Obamacare

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/magazine/the-president-wants-you-to-get-rich-on-obamacare.html?pagewanted=all

 

How architecture has made L.A a bank robbers paradise

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/49/manaugh.php

 

Snowden leaks and the public (from the editor of the Guardian)

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/21/snowden-leaks-and-public/?pagination=false

 

Who’s right about Apple’s pile of cash? (I don’t know if this is behind a paywall or not, sorry!)

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/10/29/apple-icahn-and-the-cash-pile-manjoo-vs-berman/

and Felix Salmon’s summary

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/10/29/apple-should-be-like-bloomberg/

 

Is geoengineering as crazy as it sounds (eh, maybe)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/30/david-keith-explains-why-geoengineering-isnt-as-crazy-as-it-sounds/

 

TV mailbag

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9901191/andy-greenwald-answers-your-tv-questions-month-mailbag

 

Georgia’s former president. Live by spin, die by spin

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140227/thomas-de-waal/so-long-saakashvili

 

25 websites that will make you cleverer (l’m not usually into lists, but some of these are pretty awesome)

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/25-killer-websites-that-make-you-cleverer-2.html