Julian Lepinski

More flying over the last few weeks has meant I’ve been able to work a bit of the way through my Instapaper backlog. I don’t think I’ll ever tame it (unlike Eric, who lords his bloody Instapaper Zero over me like a sociopath). Here’s what I done read:

• Fortune has a great profile of the recent fall of HP in How Hewlett-Packard lost its way

• Eric Puchner writes an astounding, soul-searching piece about meeting the person who he might have been in another life in The Cooler Me

• The uber-short, uber-fascinating tale of The $144,146,165 Button

• Toronto Life’s definitive breakdown of the Ford mayoralty in Toronto to date, including lots of new info I’ve never read elsewhere in The Weirdest Mayoralty Ever

• A creepy and disturbing writeup about a guy behind one of the biggest ‘revenge porn’ sites: “Gary Jones” Wants Your Nudes

• The interesting-but-a-little-too-paradigmatic The Web Is A Customer Service Medium

• Sound on Sound’s inside story of how U2 recorded Achtung Baby and Zooropa; fascinating even for a non-U2 fan (but admitted recording geek) such as myself. Robbie Adams: Recording U2′s Achtung Baby & Zooropa

• The critical but nonetheless interesting Another Thing to Sort of Pin on David Foster Wallace, with which I did not entirely agree

• Businessweek’s The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace which is a great  (is it too soon to say) postmortem of the company

• The controversial and amazing Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is (and the incredible followup)

• A quick breakdown in The StarPhoenix of how the Canadian election fraudster Pierre Poutine (I wish I was joking) covered his tracks