Weekend Reads

“Six years earlier, working as a functionary for a transportation company, Mr. Chen had read a story about the bridge in the paper, about bodies raining to their end. Soon after, he quietly took his post at the South Tower.” From GQ’s Michael Paterniti: The Suicide Catcher.

+ A.M. Radio. The Banksy of Second Life.

+ “We do need tools to buy and sell drugs online, to gamble online, to transfer money to Iranians and North Koreans, to enable kids to run business on the Internet to manage resources collectively.” From Wired: Inside Dark Wallet.

+ BloombergBusinessweek: America’s vanishing bowling alleys.