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    I was just joking around over on the “bleeding between the lines” thread in which a discussion is taking place about one specific online essay when I realized how much I appreciated the tip and subsequent commentary. The web is like a labyrinth of waste and navigating the bowels in search of hidden treasures is often a difficult task, especially when it comes to articles. Help us all find some good web reading by recommending an online essay or article that might be of interest. Subject- anything really worth reading, preferably current, controversial, relevant.


    I’m going to cheat by recommending A Modest Proposal because if I knew where to find anything recent I wouldn’t be asking for the help. (plus if you haven't read it you're in for a real treat...)
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    http://longform.org/
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    Well shit Warren, thanks for that. That's my reading sorted for work tomorrow.

    I'm getting into Robert Brockway's column on Cracked.com, if that's applicable.
    • CommentAuthorbadbear
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2010
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    Literally anything on The Situationist. It's mostly about social psychology - something I wasn't really aware of until I started reading this thing about a year ago and now I read it most days because it is just that intensely interesting.

    I also have a somewhat sick fascination for politics so I also read this blog quite a lot. It has a trans-atlantic bent, is intelligently written (in my opinion) and can be credited with bringing this to my attention:
    "A man was jailed by a Kemerovo region court on Thursday for assaulting a Gypsy fortune teller who predicted that he would be jailed, the Investigative Committee said." (from the moscow times)
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    THANKS!! I'm going in ....
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      CommentAuthorNavrozov
    • CommentTimeAug 19th 2010
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    A recent editor's pick from longform.org, highly recommended:
    In 2004, having made his name as Steven Soderbergh’s agent, Pat Dollard was the stereotypical Hollywood operator: coked-up, Armani-sheathed, separated from his fourth wife, and rapidly self-destructing. But when he hit bottom, Dollard didn’t go back to rehab; he went to Iraq, embedded with the Marines, and filmed a pro-war documentary, which has the industry buzzing and right-wingers hailing him as the anti–Michael Moore. But whether he’s surviving mayhem in Ramadi or dining with Ann Coulter in Los Angeles, Evan Wright reports, Dollard’s life is a one-man combat zone.
    Evan Wright, "Pat Dollard’s War on Hollywood", Vanity Fair, March '07

    And from the classics file, the omnivorous psychogeography of William Ford Gibson:
    Singapore is a relentlessly G-rated experience, micromanaged by a state that has the look and feel of a very large corporation. If IBM had ever bothered to actually possess a physical country, that country might have had a lot in common with Singapore. There's a certain white-shirted constraint, an absolute humorlessness in the way Singapore Ltd. operates; conformity here is the prime directive, and the fuzzier brands of creativity are in extremely short supply.

    The physical past here has almost entirely vanished.

    There is no slack in Singapore. Imagine an Asian version of Zurich operating as an offshore capsule at the foot of Malaysia; an affluent microcosm whose citizens inhabit something that feels like, well, Disneyland. Disneyland with the death penalty.
    William Gibson, "Disney with the Death Penalty", Wired, September '93
    • CommentAuthor256
    • CommentTimeAug 20th 2010
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    The Dark Side Of Dubai Johann Hari, Independent, April 2009. The very grim foundations of a desert mirage, exposed.

    Real Psyschics: Criminal profiling and the FBI Malcom Gladwell, New Yorker, November 2007. Tearing apart the mythical status of psychological profilers.
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    @Warren http://longform.org/ the gift that keeps giving!
    @badbear , got the Situationist in my favourites under longform, very interesting indeed
    @ 256 THe DARK SIDE of DUBAI nice piece of Orwellian fiction, oh wait that is really happening.
    @ Navrozov half through the Dollard article, intriguing and bizarre selection

    caught this funny one from longform Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text which was a welcoming intro to the site and to all this good reading

    Anyways wanted to say thanks again now that I've had some time explore , really appreciate the tips.
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    This is not very long, only three pages, but well worth spending a short amount of time with, Principles of a Short Story by Raymond Carver

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