The Soup & Instapaper Clean-Up Day
After four days of intensive (one might even say excessive) Christmas celebrations with lots of eating, drinking and presents, I was more frugal today. I cleaned the apartment, did my laundry, paid my bills. For dinner, I had a simple soup (it tasted better than the picture above looks), and then I sat on my couch and read the 20 or so unread articles that have accumulated in my Instapaper account over the last two hectic weeks. Here's some of the stuff I read and enjoyed:
- Turkish author Orhan Pamuk worries that the "dream of Europe" that was strong in Turkey until recently is fading away.
- Francis Fukuyama asks an interesting question - why has the rising income inequality in the U.S. not led to more political pressure from the left? -, but fails to provide a convincing answer.
- Fellow Sandboxer Nate Whittemore wrote a short and very to-the-point post on the difference between the "social graph" and the "interest graph".
- Insightful piece from the New York Review of Books on the rising power of Russia's secret service FSB.
- Nice, if not very surprising, article on the "idea industry".
- The NYT Magazine on a physicist who claims to have discovered the "formula" for cities.
