From the Archives: 8/29/2012 Edition

The Best  Book Reviews Money Can Buy

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/business/book-reviewers-for-hire-meet-a-demand-for-online-raves.html?_r=1&src=recg&pagewanted=all

 

How Internet Surveillance got so cheap

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/big-brother-meets-big-data-the-next-wave-in-net-surveillance-tech/

 

Lance Armstrong

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8307508/livestrong-founder-lance-armstrong-was-never-really-cycling

 

Where the Mob Keeps its money

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/where-the-mob-keeps-its-money.html?pagewanted=2&_r=4&emc=eta1&pagewanted=all

 

No Korean Handset Manufacturers or British Chips here: Motorola and Intel to launch phone Sept. 18^th

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19409673

 

Life, the Universe, and Everything

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/08/on-reconciling-atheism-and-meaning-in-the-universe/261627/?single_page=true

 

Some thoughts on R&D Spending

http://www.economist.com/node/21560863

 

China

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/china/articles/20120829.aspx

 

“But….But….I love my Lexmark Printer” – Says absolutely no one, ever

http://www.pcworld.com/article/261564/lexmark_exits_the_inkjet_market_are_printers_doomed.html#tk.hp_fv