Weekly Filet #73: Birth of a Superpower. And more.
Right from my digital butchery: Weekly Filet #73. Read it here or over at Das Magazin.
This week's top recommendation
The Guardian's China correspondent writes his farewell article as he leaves the country after ten years of reporting. It's an intriguing résumé of what he experienced from what he calls «a front-row seat to watch 200-odd years of industrial development playing at fast forward on a continent-wide screen with a cast of more than a billion».
→ China: witnessing the birth of a superpower (The Guardian)
Further recommendations
A great read on we can learn from the Museum of Failed Products: embracing failure as failure, not only as a technique for achieving success.
→ Happiness is a glass half empty (The Guardian)
As technology advances, some sounds are lost or at least endangered. This little site is here to remember them. Lots of "oh, yes, almost forgot about this one!" guaranteed.
→ The Museum of Endangered Sounds
As the Arab Spring has turned into a complex chaos in Egypt, The West needs to send clear signals, The Economist argues. Namely that democratically elected Islamists are to be supported.
→ Egypt in Peril (The Economist)
This is Instagram for pros. And totally analogue. Will need to try this sometime.
→ How To Transfer Prints To Wood (Digital Photography School)
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