More links with little comment: Rushdie, patent wars, apples, fried everything and F.M. Ford

More good stuff that speaks for itself:

• Nice piece on the author and his movies: Salman Rushdie gets back to his day job.
  
• Patent wars like Apple's and Samsung's are nothing new. Cold War: The Legal Battle Between Good Humor and the Popsicle Corporation
  
• The history of apples. Sour, and for lowlifes only? Why Do Students Give Teachers Apples and More from the Fruit’s Juicy Past
  
• 25 Deep-Fried Foods From the Texas State Fair: Fried beer? Say no more!
  
• Parade's End is coming to the US, no doubt, and most of us are going to watch it. I mean, Sir Tom Stoppard and Non-Sherlock Cumberbatch? And, oh yeah. The original author: The life of Ford Madox Ford.