| The Atlantic’s WWII Photo Series Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:59 PM PDT The Atlantic recently wrapped up Part 20 of its magnificent photo series on WWII. Here are links to them all, in order. Highly, highly recommended. 
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| Mona Simpson on Her Brother Steve Jobs Posted: 30 Oct 2011 01:01 PM PDT Novelist Mona Simpson on her brother Steve Jobs, who she first met as as an adult. A tiny excerpt. The entirety is intense, sometimes amusing, and, in its knowing totality, emotionally devastating. When I met Steve, he was a guy my age in jeans, Arab- or Jewish-looking and handsomer than Omar Sharif. We took a long walk — something, it happened, that we both liked to do. I don't remember much of what we said that first day, only that he felt like someone I'd pick to be a friend. He explained that he worked in computers. I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter. I told Steve I'd recently considered my first purchase of a computer: something called the Cromemco. Steve told me it was a good thing I'd waited. He said he was making something that was going to be insanely beautiful. …He treasured happiness. Then, Steve became ill and we watched his life compress into a smaller circle. Once, he'd loved walking through Paris. He'd discovered a small handmade soba shop in Kyoto. He downhill skied gracefully. He cross-country skied clumsily. No more.
via A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs – NYTimes.com. 
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| Twitter Digest: 2011-10-30 Posted: 30 Oct 2011 12:00 PM PDT |
| The Great Bangkok Flood Posted: 30 Oct 2011 09:22 AM PDT Chao Praya river levels peaked this weekend in the unprecedented Bangkok flooding: Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is currently experiencing what is perhaps the greatest flood ever to swamp a city so large in world history. This dynamic Asian megalopolis has a population of around 10 million within the city limits and a metropolitan population of at least 20 million. The flood is affecting virtually every resident and many have evacuated to provinces outside the flood zones. The worst of the flood was expected to occur on Saturday October 29th as the river that bisects the city, the Chao Praya, was expected to crest at its highest level ever recorded some 8 feet above normal and astronomical high tides were expected to peak, possibly causing the drainage of the cities canals and the Chao Praya to back up and push the flood waters into the heart of the city. Fortunately however, it appears that, so far, the dikes have held and the worst-case scenario is not playing out. This could change at a moments notice.
via Weather Extremes : The Great Bangkok Flood : Weather Underground. 
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