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March 2008

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bookshelf and self - InsideHigherEd [via Bookshelf]
unusual bookshelf designs - BlogOnBookshelf [via JWalk]
I'm happy with the less exciting but more practical shelves I've just built
growth options for Heathrow airport - Economist
Hugo Claus chooses death by euthanasia - Times [via CR]
his novel The Sorrow of Belgium is good background to understanding Belgium's current identity crisis
Grandeur and Grit: A History of Glebe [review]
conflict continues in the Ogaden - Guardian
Australia's foreign aid is lop-sided - SMH
too much is going to Australian consultants and security, too little to basic development
remembering Arthur C. Clarke - MLite
the United States' coin problems - NYer [via RW]
robot music - SciMag
Paul Theroux explains how he became a travel writer - Guardian [via CR]
Iceland's financial crisis - Telegraph
"the Icelandic kroner has plummeted in value, the banks have had millions of dollars wiped off their stock and lending lines have been savagely curtailed"
copper theft is becoming widespread - Guardian
"Theft of metal has been described as the most serious threat to Britain's railways apart from terrorism."
Myers evicted from creationist movie - Pharyngula
but Richard Dawkins was allowed to stay!
Eastern European cuisine is moving up-market - Guardian
The Porn Report [review]
the consumption and production of pornography in Australia
some comparisons of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal - WMW
Solo's antiquities have been pilfered - SMH
the German army has no awards for courage - SMH
there's talk of reviving the Iron Cross, created by Prussia in 1813 but tainted by the Nazis
developing countries need finance for medium-sized businesses - NYer [via CT]
microloans only go so far
Australian utilities abandon broadband over power - ZDnet
Germany's Basic Law may save the EU from unaccountable terrorist blacklists - CT
Krugman on interstellar trade - Princeton [PDF, via Kos]
Krugman reckons US house prices could drop 25% - up to 50% in some areas - CNN
photosynthetic energy capture without carbon fixation?! - AstroBio
new discoveries about marine cyanobacteria
London and Paris compared - Economist
Iceland's biggest BitTorrent tracker shut down - mashable
it claims 10% of Iceland's population as members
male car drivers are more easily distracted - SMH
how and why children learn to lie - NYmag
William Dalrymple on events in Pakistan - NYROB
Lhasa burns - Economist
an IETF meeting goes IPv6-only - ArsTechnica [via /.]
fish are used to monitor Sydney's water quality - SMH
I have bad RSI
so I'm trying to stay away from the computer
signs the US is moving to attack Iran - USnews
and is the oil price an indicator here?
US evangelicals split on climate change - Guardian
James Bond and chess - EUCC [via Irreg]
a million poor Australians pay higher tax rates than millionaires - SMH
a chat with Warren Buffett - UndergroundValue
"At age 11 I started investing... I had read every book on investing in the Omaha library."
which seems like a good example for Howe's argument in Genius Explained
Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics [review]
The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004 [review]
do Islamic debt securities comply with sharia law? - Economist
"Japan, Thailand and the UK are all expected to launch debut sovereign sukuk during 2008 to tap the Muslim investor base, creating benchmarks for domestic corporates to follow suit."
spamming doesn't make Vatican's updated seven deadly sins - SMH
nearly 10% of US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan have hearing damage - WiredDispatch
Israeli troops use Gaza civilians as human shields and loot their houses - SMH
US drinking water contains a cocktail of drugs - Yahoo [via /.]
"researchers do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of persistent exposure to random combinations of low levels of pharmaceuticals"
Kerala mandates GNU/Linux in school examinations - IndExp [via OSWALD]
Sicilian shopkeepers stand up to the Mafia - Guardian
gains by Malaysia's opposition parties - IHT - Economist
the ruling party loses Kedah and Perak and only holds 1 of 11 KL seats
Obama and Clinton compared - ProRev
Quozl tests the OLPC's mesh networking in the outback - Computerworld [via /.]
what really happened on Easter Island? - AmericanScientist [via ASAOnet]
where are South-East Asia's megacorps? - Economist
a survey of Australian broadband users - Whirlpool
nearly 75% are opposed to the government's censorship proposals
the charms of Wikipedia - NYROB [via RW]
giant Burmese pythons have gone feral in the US - Barista
Reform and Reconstruction: Britain after the war, 1945-51 [review]
2008 is the International Year of the Potato - Economist
Noam Chomsky is on Facebook?! - Guardian
fears about Internet predators are largely unfounded - Schneier [via EFA]
Israel's deputy defense minster threatens Gazia with a "holocaust" - EI
and Israel kills another 30 Palestinians, including 9 children

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