December 2007
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a call for Australia to revive habeas corpus -
SMHBenazir Bhutto assassinated -
SMHa naturalist's view of Florida -
Dinetsdrives with software that won't share MP3s -
BBC [via OSWALD] -
BrendanScottpossibly in breach of the Australian Trade Practices Act
upgrading from Vista to XP -
DotNet [via /.]IT support at the South Pole -
Cworld [via /.]I can't even get dialup to work
it keeps dropping out after four or five minutes
I've forgotten just how slow dialup is!
Telstra is continuing to mess me around - they failed to change my telephone number yesterday, though they did manage to disable the phone service entirely for seven hours
the Dutch government may mandate Open Document Format -
Macworld [via /.]Telstra is an ugly monopoly that needs to be broken up
I have to sign up with Telstra before I can transfer to a real ADSL2/phone provider, but now I find out that they've given me some kind of "non-portable" number which can't be transferred to a competitor. Curiously, Google returns no hits for "UNABLE TO PORT CURRENT TELEPHONE SERVICE".
you are likely to be eaten by a grue: the rap version -
YouTubein praise of Barbara Pym -
Tele [via RW]how Australia punishes poor people -
SMHspending huge amounts in legal action against welfare recipients
"voice in the head" advertising -
MajikAustralia's six intelligence services should be abolished -
Agetwo accounts of the Marines in the invasion of Iraq -
NYROBplans for eco-cities -
ProRev -
Wired [on Dongtan]designed cities have not had a good track record, but maybe we've learned something from them
graphical plot highlights rigging of Russian election -
Krotty [via /.]Python is my programming language of choice -
xkcdsex in zero-g may not be so exciting -
Guardian [via RW]only four out of twenty positions were possible without "mechanical assistance"
the UK needs to scrap its antequated blasphemy law -
SMHlooking for appliances in Australia? -
Appliances on LineI spent most of today going around Bing Lee, Harvey Norman and the Good Guys, looking for a fridge and a washing machine, but online seems to be cheaper and easier
an interview with Philip Pullman -
FilmChat [via CT]"I was brought up in the Church of England, and whereas I'm an atheist, I'm certainly a Church of England atheist, and for the matter of that a 1662 Book of Common Prayer atheist."
lots of good press for the Asus Eee PC -
Stross -
SMHit may take five years longer than I once thought, but Linux on the desktop is happening
how samba's handling of security bugs has changed -
TuxDeluxea case study in free software security
Adultshop challenge to
Viva Erotica classification fails -
Austliithere is no genetic correlation between brain size and intelligence -
PubMed [via Cosma]Iranian Holocaust drama is a hit -
BBCthe US will happily kidnap British citizens suspected of crimes -
Times"no US court could rule that the abduction was illegal — it goes back to bounty hunting days in the 1860s"
an obituary for Milo Radulovich, victim and opponent of McCarthy -
Economistis the People's Mujahideen of Iran a terrorist organisation? -
GuardianI don't know, but describing it as "Iran's main opposition movement" is like describing the Communist Party USA as the "United States' main opposition movement" - this is appallingly bad journalism from the Guardian
US has now held war photographer without charge for 19 months -
Baristawhen do we hold the wake for habeas corpus?
Howard and Downer lied about Australian tortured in Egypt -
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