What I have been reading (or meant to read) this week October 28, 2011

• Pankaj Mishra: Niall Ferguson’s Burden
• Michael Wood: At the Movies
• Mary-Kay Wilmers: Joan Didion
• James Meek: In the Ghost Library
• Letters
• Table of contents
• Peter Campbell: Open Windows
• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: In Somalia
• [mySociety:public] Richard Stallman speaker visit
• Facebook puts your photos in the freezer as it unveils data centre near Arctic circle
  | Mail Online
  tomcoates: Sometimes I get a bit overwhelmed by the way that the world works. Arctic-cooled server farms?! Whoa. http://t.co/oEx1saw6
• Economic crisis: Europe’s rescue plan | The Economist
  lloydshep: Economist says the Euro deal relies on tricksy financial engineering. Now, that went really well last time, didn’t it? http://t.co/ULGzhpjl
• Rainn Wilson may have just had the worst DM fail ever
  LewisWiltshire: Hilarious. Scroll to foot of page for actual tweets. MT “@DanielMclaren: You might never see a DM Fail as bad as this http://t.co/J3cJ0UYl”
• What to Inspect When You’re Expecting: Letting Nature Take Its Coarse
• Birmingham Civic Dashboard
  tomskitomski: Interesting ‘civil dashboard’ for B’ham City Council http://t.co/HNusUFd7

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