Morning Reading

Morning Reading 3.19.2012
Bike marathon . . . bike-a-thon?  I guess you have to bike that far to get anywhere in LA - The Atlantic (Nate Berg)
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2012/03/la-unofficial-late-night-bike-marathon/1521/

Another reason Mark will complain about technology.  The old fashioned way works better? - Time (Maia Szalavitz)
http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memory/?iid=hl-main-lede

Apple, China, and the Truth.  I am sure you read lots of stuff on this, but I liked this one the best because of the spin it puts on it - New Yorker (Evan Osnos)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/03/mike-daiseys-mistakes-in-china.html

The Daisey-ian response
http://mikedaisey.com/audio/prologue.mp3

So who attacks who first?
China v. Japan
North Korea v. South Korea
China v. Taiwan
United States v. China
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812904577288983989668016.html

Morning Reading 3.13.2012

Morning Reading
How big is Atlanta's airport? - Atlantic (Mark Byrnes)
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/03/scenes-above-atlantas-massive-international-airport/1465/

The perfect loaf of bread?  For some perhaps - Lifehacker (Alan Henry)
http://lifehacker.com/5892768/bake-bread-in-a-coffee-can-for-perfectly-round-evenly-baked-loaves-with-little-crust

Rough pre-game meal at the Olive Garden - Yahoo! (Chris Chase)
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/entire-arena-football-team-cut-during-pregame-meal-190741599.html

China v. South Korea? - Wall Street Journal (Jeremy Page)
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/03/13/china-south-korea-in-row-over-submerged-rock/?mod=WSJBlog

Where has Chinese taxpayers' dollars gone? - Ministry of Tofu
http://www.ministryoftofu.com/2012/03/video-where-has-chinese-taxpayers-money-gone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MiniTofublog+%28Ministry+of+Tofu+-+Featured+Articles%29

Morning Reading 3.12.2012

Morning Reading
A Train Journey from Iran to Turkey - Uncornered Market (Audrey Scott)
http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/2012/03/iran-turkey-train/

Blogging Over Thyme
http://www.bloggingoverthyme.com/
This is the girlfriend of one of the other students in Sara's class.  She is in culinary school and writes about it.  It is new to me and I honestly haven't read more than a couple of posts, but I am going to try to start from the beginning and thought you might enjoy it too

High Speed Rail in China - Seeing Red in China (Tom ?)
http://seeingredinchina.com/2012/03/12/high-speed-railway-collapse-in-hubei-a-tragedy-averted-by-luck/

Capital Gains from My Favorite Economist - The Economist (Scott Sumner)
http://www.economist.com/economics/by-invitation/guest-contributions/proper-tax-rate-capital-income-zero

Morning Reading 3.8.2012

Morning Reading
Tarp Charts
http://dealbreaker.com/2012/03/tarp-charts/

http://homepage.eircom.net/~odyssey/Quotes/Popular/TV/Westwing4.html

Morning Reading 3.7.2012

Morning Reading
How cool are these!?!?!?
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/06/night-biking-gloves/

Morning Reading 3.5.2012

Morning Reading
Gentrification from a decidedly positive viewpoint - David Lida (David Lida)
http://davidlida.com/?p=1672

An interesting editorial from the Editor of Caixin
http://topics.scmp.com/news/china-news-watch/article/The-rise-of-Chinas-state-capitalism-is-not-a-point-of-pride-but-a-reason-for-worry

Propublica on the Financial Crisis and Banking Sector (didn't read it yet)
http://www.propublica.org/article/fed-shrugged-off-warning-let-banks-pay-shareholders-billions

The National People's Conference in China is in full swing:
http://chovanec.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/chinas-politics-in-rare-bloom/
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/03/05/china-npc-2012-the-reports/?mod=WSJBlog
http://english.caixin.com/2012-03-01/100362616_all.html
http://english.caixin.com/2012-03-05/100363875.html

Morning Reading 3.1.2012

Morning Reading
This is meta - Finding la Mancha (Mark "Moccasin" Eisinger)
http://findinglamancha.blogspot.com/2012/02/wednesday-february-29-2012-can.html

USA! USA! USA!
http://www.soccerbyives.net/soccer_by_ives/2012/03/italy-0-usa-1-match-highlights.html

Light Rail and Congestion - The Atlantic (Eric Jaffe)
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/02/does-light-rail-really-alleviate-highway-congestion/1358/

Elephant on the Tube - The Atlantic (Samuel Medina)
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2012/02/elephants-and-whales-london-tube/1359/

Boxpark (I think I posted something on this before, but I think it is pretty cool) - And it Feels Like Coming Home (Rachella)
http://anditfeelslikehome.blogspot.com/2012/03/boxpark-pop-up-on-steroids.html

$35 "Computer" - A VC (Fred Wilson)
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/raspberry-pi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29