Ed Millard

The Very Rich Indie Writer http://www.novelr.com/2011... "no traditional publisher ... can offer Amanda Hocking terms that are better " than Amazon

Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World - The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpict...

Seymour Hersh and the men who want him committed http://www.salon.com/news... Lengthy piece on Knights of Malta conspiracy thing at Foreign Policy

The biggest company you never heard of http://www.reuters.com/article... Glencore nearing IPO, Swiss company a dominating presence in commodities

From @nfergus interview "So the new protectionism is actually a game of quantitative easing, which is the new euphemism for printing money"

Is China Really a Threat to us? http://standpointmag.co.uk/print... Niall Ferguson interview

Beijing's Silicon Valley is taking off http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance...

Niall Ferguson: Americans and Revolutions http://www.newsweek.com/2011...

Irish voters toss Fianna Fail after 60 years in power & leading Ireland in to bankruptcy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news... impact on EU bailout unclear

A special report on feeding the world: How much is enough? | The Economist http://www.economist.com/node...

Technological Inevitability http://chronopause.com/index... Wide ranging essay on technology ahead of and behind its time, long read

Deepening Shadows Over Chinese Law http://blogs.wsj.com/chinare...

Feds spy on @nytimes reporter in leak probe http://www.politico.com/news... ... private credit reports, bank, travel and phone records

#FF @longreads @HowardKurtz @ggreenwald @ID_AA_Carmack (John Carmack)

3D Bioprinter for printing body parts http://nextbigfuture.com/2011... via @nextbigfuture

Erdös distinct distance problem solved http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news... http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4105 apps in drug development, robotics and graphics.

USA Inc.: Red, White, and Very Blue http://www.businessweek.com/print... Mary Meeker on America's finances via @longreads

Russia launches $653 billion military spending drive http://alarabiya.net/article... 20 subs, 100 ships, 600 jets, 1000 helicopters through 2020

Saudi’s $36bn bid to beat unrest http://www.ft.com/cms... 15% raise public workers, debtors out of prison, aid to students & unemployed

Christchurch earthquake - The Big Picture http://www.boston.com/bigpict...

Inside Sina Weibo https://docs.google.com/present... by @niubi

Interesting guide to China's party controlled corporations and their execs as the jockey for political power http://www.hoover.org/publica...

Chernobyl, My Primeval, Teeming, Irradiated Eden "a laboratory of microevolution—very rapid evolution" http://outsideonline.com/adventu...

How We Know by Freeman Dyson http://www.nybooks.com/article... Book review of Gleick's "The Information" and dissertation on the flood of information

Bank run in South Korea spreading http://www.chinapost.com.tw/busines...

The Historic Flight of Mercury 6 http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus...

Homeowner forecloses on Wells Fargo office, becomes folk hero http://agentgenius.com/real-es...

Unexpectedly, Navy’s Superlaser Blasts Away a Record http://www.wired.com/dangerr... 500 kilovolt Free Electron Laster injector

#FF Middle East @JustAmira @habibahamid @blakehounshell @acarvin

Wells Fargo's CFO Quit Due To An Internal Dispute Over Financial Disclosures http://www.zerohedge.com/article... ... Aggressive accounting practices

China gold demand growing at explosive pace http://www.reuters.com/article... Chinese hedging against explosive inflation among other things

Middle-earth according to Mordor http://www.salon.com/books... Has link to translation of Russian version of Lord of the Rings from the other side