Package for the Week
Hidden from sight
Reads for this weekend are here. Farhad Manjoo muses whether anyone would be able to stop facebook. From expanding, that is. The site has really amassed a huge group of user in a short time and people have been wondering if it would be able to generate revenue and such. Truth is, Facebook has really changed the stuff we do online quite very much and helped the Internet leap ahead as a tool for social networking.
Daniel Gross wrote about his tour to China's most important dam and muses over his inability to find a chocolate bar there. He got Slate.com readers to send in excuses for not being able to find a chocolate bar in China. Examples included:
"Your quest for chocolate at the Three Gorges would be like me looking for Chinese dumplings at the Hoover Dam," wrote one Beijing resident.
Jokes aside, for your watching pleasure, check out Shashi Tharoor's recent talk on TED.com about soft power, with particular reference to India.